“Anthony Pettis is dropping down to featherweight to face Charles Oliveira and “Showtime” is always a highlight reel guy and so is Oliveira”.
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UFC on FOX 21 will go down on August 27th in Vancouver.
The former lightweight champion has gone through a downward spiral ever since he lost his title to Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 185 in March a year ago. The fight will headline UFC on FOX 21, which will be hosted by the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia. That’s going to be a great fight.
The move to featherweight comes out of necessity for Pettis. They’re both evenly matched and it will be interesting to see who gets the victory here.
Pettis will be looking to snap his three-fight losing streak, but it will be easier said than done, considering that Oliveira will be heading into the fight having won five out of his last six fights. South Africa’s Garreth McLellan (13-4 MMA, 1-2 UFC) will take on Italy’s Alessio Di Chirico (9-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) on the card.
The Vancouver show will be televised by Fox south of the border, only the second Fox show to be held outside the USA – the first was headlined by Alexander (The Mauler) Gustafsson and Anthony Johnson in Stockholm, in January 2015. Clearly Vancouver’s a world-class city.
We’ll have much more on this event here on Keyboard Kimura tomorrow and in the next couple weeks as more information becomes available and further bouts get announced.
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This summer’s event will be the fourth time the UFC has held an event in Vancouver, the second Canadian stop of 2016 and the first time a FOX event has been held in this country.
