Top ten-ranked lightweight Myles Jury (15-1) will make his featherweight debut against Charles Oliveira (20-5, 1 NC) on the UFC on Fox 17 fight card on December. 19. UFC Tonight broke the news, as well as Combate in Brazil.
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Oliveira will be looking to bounce back from a weird TKO loss to Max Holloway in the UFC Fight Night 74 main event in Canada in August.
UFC on FOX 17 will be headlined by the rematch between Rafael dos Anjos and Donald Cerrone for the lightweight gold.
“Fury” is coming off a unanimous decision loss against current title challenger Donald Cerrone at UFC 182 back in January, but prior to that he was previously unbeaten with a 15-0 record and six victories inside the Octagon over the likes of Michael Johnson, Takanori Gomi and Diego Sanchez. After that, Jury was also briefly linked to a fight against former champion Anthony Pettis in July, though both fighters ended up injuring themselves and replaced by Edson Barboza and Paul Felder.
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Charles Oliveira wanted a quick turnaround from his last loss, and he will get the opportunity to end 2015 on a high note against Myles Jury. In that fight, Oliveira went down in an awkward manner near the fence and came up clutching at his neck. In his four-fight streak, he won four post-fight bonus awards, including a double bonus in a third-round submission win over Nik Lentz in May.
