The primary UFC occasion of 2025 takes place at The Apex in Las Vegas this coming weekend, with the cardboard headlined by strawweight contenders Mackenzie Dern and Amanda Ribas.
Sadly, the promotion has simply confirmed that two of the scheduled bouts on that card have fallen via – fortunately, two substitute fighters have already been discovered.
Updates to the primary UFC occasion of 2025: Mackenzie Dern vs Amanda Ribas 2
The UFC’s festive break is nearly over, with 14 fights at the moment scheduled for the primary official Combat Night time occasion of 2025, headlined by fashionable strawweight contenders Mackenzie Dern and Amanda Ribas.
As confirmed only some minutes in the past by the UFC, two bouts have sadly fallen via.
Yanal Ashmouz’s light-weight struggle towards Nurullo Aliev has been canceled (Ashmouz withdrew), together with Andreas Gustafsson’s welterweight conflict towards Preston Parsons (Gustafsson withdrew).
Fortunately, each Aliev and Parsons will stay on the cardboard, as late-notice replacements have already been discovered.
Changing Ashmouz might be Dana White’s Contender Series alumni Joe Solecki, while Gustafsson might be changed by undefeated American Jacobe Smith.
Solecki is perhaps coming off back-to-back UFC losses to Drakkar Klose and Grant Dawson, however has remained energetic within the grappling scene, scoring a slick first-round submission win at Fury Professional Grappling 11 in November.
Smith is 9-0 as knowledgeable and could possibly be a future star-in-the-making, with seven of these 9 wins coming by way of KO/TKO – together with six contained in the very first spherical.
With these two different bouts now confirmed, UFC Combat Night time: Dern vs Ribas 2 takes form with 14 scheduled fights – together with a six-fight important card.
- Mackenzie Dern vs Amanda Ribas
- Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Carlston Harris
- Cesar Almeida vs Abdul Razak Alhassan
- Chris Curtis vs Roman Kopylov
- Christian Rodriguez vs Austin Bashi
- Punahele Soriano vs Uros Medic
The prelims are set to characteristic the next athletes and bouts.
- Jose Johnson vs Felipe Bunes
- Marco Tulio vs Ihor Potieria
- Thiago Moises vs Trey Ogden
- Preston Parsons vs Jacobe Smith
- Ernesta Kareckaite vs Nicolle Caliari
- Magomed Gadzhiyasulov vs Bruno Lopes
- Fatima Kline vs Viktoriia Dudakova
- Nurullo Aliev vs Joe Solecki
The occasion is scheduled for Saturday, January 11 – right here’s to kicking off 2025 with a bang.