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Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega title fight officially back on at UFC 231 in Toronto
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The highly anticipated showdown between UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway and Brian Ortega is officially back on.
After a health scare, Holloway has been medically cleared to return and will meet Ortega in December at UFC 231, the promotion announced Monday night. MMAjunkie first reported in August that verbal agreements were in place.
Holloway (19-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) vs. Ortega (14-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) will headline UFC 232 and makes it official there will be two title fights at the event, which takes place Dec. 8 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Holloway, No. 1 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA featherweight rankings, was expected to face Ortega in July at UFC 226 before he was pulled from the event because of concussion-like symptoms. It was the third time Holloway, 26, was forced to withdraw from a fight within the past year after he was ruled out of a last-minute lightweight title fight against now-champ Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223. He also suffered an injury prior to a scheduled featherweight defense at UFC 222 against Frankie Edgar.
No. 2 Ortega, 27, wound up stepping in for Holloway at UFC 222 and secured the No. 1 contender position with a knockout of Edgar. The submission specialist has rocketed up the featherweight ranks with a string of six stoppage wins throughout his unbeaten career.
Ortega declined a short-notice fight with Jeremy Stephens at UFC 226 in favor of keeping his position on the featherweight ladder, which seems to have worked well in his favor.
The latest UFC 231 card now includes:
- Champ Max Holloway vs. Brian Ortega – for featherweight title
- Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Valentina Shevchenko – for vacant women’s flyweight title
- Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Gilbert Burns
- Chad Laprise vs. Dhiego Lima
- Kyle Bochniak vs. Hakeem Dawodu
- Devin Clark vs. Aleksandar Rakic
- Nina Ansaroff vs. Claudia Gadelha
- Brad Katona vs. Matthew Lopez
- Jimi Manuwa vs. Thiago “Marreta” Santos
- Eryk Anders vs. Elias Theodorou
For more on the UFC 231, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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