The last numbered fight card of the year features a packed event, which is being headlined by Kamaru Usman defending his title against Colby Covington at 170 lbs.\u00a0 This is sure to be an exciting battle as there is certainly no love lost between the two.\u00a0 Usman has the advantage over height and reach but Covington’s undeniable talent (and attitude!) will be a tough challenge<\/p>\n
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Joint co-main event is Max Holloway putting his featherweight belt on the line against Alexander Volkanovski, who is the number one ranked challenger.\u00a0 Holloway is the taller man but has a shorter reach.\u00a0 An intriguing match up!<\/p>\n
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The other co-main event sees champion Amanda Nunes up against number one contender Germaine de Randamie at 135 lbs.\u00a0 In the tale of the tape these women are very closely matched, but it is Nunes who is the favourite to win, but\u00a0 de Randamie may feel she has a point to prove following her victory over Holly Holm<\/p>\n
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Rest of the fight card<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jose Aldo vs. Marlon Moraes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bantamweight The last numbered fight card of the year features a packed event, which is being headlined by Kamaru Usman defending his title against Colby Covington at 170 lbs.\u00a0 This is sure to be an exciting battle as there is certainly no love lost between the two.\u00a0 Usman has the advantage over height and reach but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[1614,63,1615],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufc","tag-covington","tag-ufc","tag-usman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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