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The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first card of 2025 is now official.
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The promotion confirmed the 14-bout lineup for UFC Vegas 101 — also known as UFC Fight Night 249 — in a release on Tuesday. The card takes place on Jan. 11 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a strawweight rematch between Amanda Ribas and Mackenzie Dern, while Chris Curtis will square off against Roman Kopylov in the evening’s co-main event at middleweight.
Ribas, who defeated Dern via unanimous decision in their first meeting at UFC Fight Night 161 on Oct. 12, 2019, has competed at both strawweight and flyweight in the UFC. The Brazilian is coming off a five-round defeat to Rose Namajunas at 125 pounds in the UFC on ESPN 53 headliner this past March.
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, Dern snapped a two-bout skid in her last outing, when she took a three-round verdict over Lupita Godinez at UFC on ABC 7 on Aug. 3. The 31-year-old RVCA representative owns victories over the likes of Angela Hill, Tecia Pennington and Virna Jandiroba during her promotional tenure.
Curtis is coming off a 1-1 campaign in 2021. He took a split verdict over Marc-Andre Barriault at UFC 297 in January before dropping a split-decision to Brendan Allen in the UFC Fight Night 240 headliner this past April.
Kopylov has been victorious in five of his last Octagon appearances. Most recently, he defeated Cesar Almeida via split decision at UFC 302 on June 1.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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