UFC 250 will be held outdoors on the White House south lawn right in front of the front doors. History will be made and an early celebration of the United States of America’s birthday will be held but not with colorful fireworks that light up the sky. The fans will celebrate with a card that wont disappoint, well at least not on paper. The only disappointment? Less fights.
The UFC Freedom event will only feature a main card due to security reasons. Seven fights total with eight Americans slotted to fight and two out of the seven fights will have Americans matched up against each other. Prior to the announcement of the card fans were hoping to see a traditional all USA vs Russia card or USA vs The World card but it looks like Canada, Brazil, and Georgia will be the only nations competing against American fighters.
Nonetheless, we have an entertaining card at that.
We start the night off with number two ranked featherweight Diego Lopes vs the number nine ranked featherweight Steve Garcia. Diego lopes never fails to entertain with his iron chin and iron fists. He is bouncing back from a loss to the featherweigth champion Alexander Volkanovski. While Steve Garcia is on seven fight win streak, six of which came by way of ko/tko.
Jumping back on the win column against the submission artist Rodolfo Vieira, Bo Nickal looks to make another run as a contender as he faces fellow American UFC vet Kyle Daukaus. Bo will look to use his elite grappling to control the fight while Daukaus will attempt to keep this fight standing using his dangerous stand up to secure his win.
The second Brazil vs USA match of the night will be number nine lightweight contender Mauricio Ruffy vs Michael Chandler. This match up almost guarantees to not go the distance. Michael Chandler is notorious for his “kill or be killed” mentality in the octagon. While Mauricio Ruffy uses lethal precise strikes, he will look to finish Chandler in the early rounds.
The first heavyweight clash of the night will feature the fan favorite Derrick Lewis who will take on the new rising star of the division Josh Hokit. These two heavy hitters will put it all on the line looking to do what they do best…knock out their opponents.
The former bantamweight champion Sean O’malley takes on number sixth ranked featherweight Aiemann Zahabi. Zahabi looks to climb the rankings as the number one contender after defeating icons of the division. While O’malley is looking to become champion once again.
The co- main event of the evening…
The former Middleweight and Light Heavyweight Champion Alex Pereira looks to make history to become the first ever UFC three weight division champion if he defeats the number one ranked UFC Heavyweight Cyrl Gane for the vacant UFC Heavyweight title. This will certainly be an entertaining fight as technique meets power. A clash of a classical soccer rivalry (in spirit of the World Cup) Brazil vs France this fight checks all the boxes for an entertaining fight.
The main event of the evening….
Topuria vs Gaethje. Topuria looks to defend his lightweight title against the interim lightweight champion Justin Gaethje and quiet all the doubters. Topuria promises to make work of his opponent with full confidence in the power and boxing skills. Justin looks to upset Topuria as he has stated before he is willing to die in that octogan. This is a match fight fans will not want to blink let alone miss.
UFC Freedom 250 is expected to display fireworks in the image of knock outs, submissions, and all out violence.
You don’t want to miss it.
