23 July 2016 | United Center | Chicago, IL MAIN CARD FOX, 8 p.m. ET Holly Holm vs. Valentina Shevchenko Edson Barboza vs. Gilbert Melendez Francis Ngannou vs. Bojan Mihajlovic Kailin Curran vs. Felice Herrig PRELIMINARY CARD FOX Sports 1, 6 p.m. ET Frankie Saenz vs. Eddie Wineland Godofredo Pepey vs. Darren Elkins Kamaru Usman vs. Alexander Yakovlev J.C. Cottrell vs. Michel Prazares PRELIMINARY CARD UFC Fight Pass, 4:30 p.m. ET James Moontasri vs. Alex Oliveira Jim Alers vs. Jason Knight Luis Henrique vs. Dmitry Smolyakov
Glover has been removed from this card. Word is AJ won't take too long to get healthy and they will book the fight for a later event.
There was an article going around that stated AJ wasn't actually heart, he just had family matters to attend to.
Interested in seeing Francis Ngannou fight again. The HW division needs prospects and he's looked good so far.
MAIN CARD (FOX, 8 p.m. ET) Holly Holm (135) vs. Valentina Shevchenko (133) Edson Barboza (155) vs. Gilbert Melendez (155) Bojan Mihajlovic (228) vs. Francis Ngannou (259) Kailin Curran (116) vs. Felice Herrig (115) PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX, 6 p.m. ET) Frankie Saenz (135) vs. Eddie Wineland (135) Darren Elkins (145) vs. Godofredo Pepey (145) Kamaru Usman (170) vs. Alexander Yakovlev (170) J.C. Cottrell (155) vs. Michel Prazeres (155) PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 4:30 p.m. ET) James Moontasri (170) vs. Alex Oliveira (170) Jim Alers (145) vs. Jason Knight (145) Luis Henrique (253) vs. Dmitry Smolyakov (251) MMA Junkie
Results Valentina Shevchenko def. Holly Holm via unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-46) Edson Barboza def. Gilbert Melendez via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28) Francis Ngannou def. Bojan Mihajlovic via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 1:34 Felice Herrig def. Kailin Curran via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 1:59 Eddie Wineland def. Frankie Saenz via TKO (punches) – Round 3, 1:54 Darren Elkins def. Godofredo Pepey via unanimous decision (29-27, 29-27, 30-26) Kamaru Usman def. Alexander Yakovlev via unanimous decision (30-25, 30-25, 30-25) Michel Prazeres def. J.C. Cottrell via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-27, 30-27) Alex Oliveira def. James Moontasri via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-25) Jason Knight def. Jim Alers via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) Luis Henrique def. Dmitrii Smoliakov via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 2, 3:58
Fair play to Valentina. A little undersized for 135 and just knocked off one of the top fighters in the division. Holly didn't have a lot of ideas beyond her initial game plan much like in her last fight. Barbozz looked good. Whatever his next fight is, he needs to win it. He should draw some inspiration from Michael Bisping who couldn't get a title fight but kept trying. Gil looks burned out. Mihajlovic turtled and then popped back up complaining. Meh. Didn't learn much from that fight. Felice Herrig got a nice win at home. Dunno what will be next for her. Eddie Wineland did well. So did Darren Elkins. Didn't see the other fights.