‘Robocop’ has booked his first UFC headliner.
In line with a report from Alex Behunin of MMAMania.com, streaking Brazilian standout Gregory Rodrigues will return to the Octagon on Saturday, February 15 for a showdown with No. 8 ranked middleweight contender Jared Cannonier. The occasion is predicted to emanate from The APEX in Las Vegas.
Rodrigues goes into the bout driving a three-fight win streak with victories over Denis Tiuliulin, Brad Tavares, and Christian Leroy Duncan. Total, ‘Robocop’ is 7-2 beneath the UFC banner along with his lone losses coming towards Arman Petrosyan and Bruno Ferreira. 5 of Rodrigues’ seven wins have come inside the gap — all by way of knockout.
Cannonier appears to be like to snap two-fight skid towards ‘robocop’
In the meantime, Cannonier is coming off the primary two-fight shedding skid of his UFC run after developing brief towards Nassourdine Imavov and Caio Borralho in his final two outings.
Earlier than that, ‘Killa Gorilla’ had a powerful run that noticed him win 4 out of 5, together with choices over Kelvin Gastelum, former 185-pound titleholder Sean Strickland, and one-time UFC title challenger Marvin Vettori.
It will likely be Cannonier’s sixth straight UFC principal occasion.
Take a look at the cardboard for UFC Vegas 102 to this point:
Jared Cannonier vs. Gregory Rodrigues
Rinat Fakhretdinov vs. Gabriel Bonfim
Julia Avila vs. Jacqueline Cavalcanti
Rodolfo Vieira vs. Jacob Malkoun
Ismael Bonfim vs. Nazim Sadykhov
Juliana Miller vs. Carli Judice
Jose Delgado vs. Connor Matthews
Billy Goff vs. Nikolay Veretennikov
