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Ray Borg vs. Brandon Moreno rebooked for UFC Fight Night 129 in Chile
Will the third time be the charm for Ray Borg and Brandon Moreno? That is the question.
UFC officials announced today that Borg (11-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC) and Moreno (14-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) have been rebooked to square off at UFC Fight Night 129, which takes place May 19 from Movistar Arena in Santiago Chile. The event airs on FS1 following prelims on UFC Fight Pass, though the bout order hasn’t been set.
The latest attempt to make Borg-Moreno happen comes in the wake of their last-minute cancellation last week at UFC 223. Borg was forced out due to glass shards in his eye, which resulted from Conor McGregor’s alleged attack on the UFC 223 fighter bus after media day.
The fight had previously been set for February’s UFC Fight Night 126 in Austin, but an injury to Borg resulted in the fight being moved to UFC 223 in Brooklyn. Now, for the third time, it’s set to happen in Chile for the UFC’s first venture into a South American country other than Brazil.
Borg is No. 5 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA flyweight rankings, and Moreno is No. 8.
Moreno, a 24-year-old Mexican fighter, became a quick fan favorite after storming on the UFC scene with a three-fight winning streak. “The Assassin Baby” picked off some big names – Louis Smolka, Ryan Benoit and Dustin Ortiz – during the stretch, which pushed his overall winning streak to 11 fights. However, in his most recent bout, he suffered a unanimous-decision defeat to fellow contender Sergio Pettis in last August’s UFC Fight Night 114 headliner.
Borg, 24, went 5-1 with victories over the likes of Smolka and Jussier Formiga to earn a title shot with champ Demetrious Johnson. However, in UFC 216’s co-headliner this past October, “The Tazmexican Devil” suffered a fifth-round submission loss to the champ via dazzling armbar.
The UFC Fight Night 129 lineup currently includes:
- Kamaru Usman vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio
- Volkan Oezdemir vs. Mauricio Rua
- Chad Laprise vs. Vicente Luque
- Guido Cannetti vs. Diego Rivas
- Alexa Grasso vs. Tatiana Suarez
- Andrea Lee vs. Veronica Macedo
- Poliana Botelho vs. Syuri Kondo
- Henry Briones vs. Frankie Saenz
- Jared Cannonier vs. Dominick Reyes
- Claudio Puelles vs. Felipe Silva
- Zak Cummings vs. Michel Prazeres
- Humberto Bandenay vs. Gabriel Benitez
- Ray Borg vs. Brandon Moreno
For more on UFC Fight Night 129, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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