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Dana White announces 2 title fights for UFC 323 🏆 🏆 | Good Guy / Bad Guy
Daniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen react to Dana White announcing two title fights for UFC 323 on Dec. 6, Merab Dvalishvili vs. Petr Yan 2 and Alexandre Pantoja vs. Joshua Van.
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Chill. Big news from the boss. Dana
White, UFC 323, live from Las Vegas.
Marab Dwalis Willie fights again this
year against Poran for the bantamweight
championship. And Joshua Van gets his
opportunity to challenge the great
Aleandre Pantoia. What do you make of
these two big fights as we close out the
UFC calendar?
I have a couple of thoughts. I thought
first off, I was wrong. I thought Kayla
Harrison and Amanda were targeting that
card. I know that's still a real thing.
I'm curious as to what delayed it. But
the biggest news that you just announced
there for me is simply the return of
Morav. He's been saying he wants back.
He's been saying he wants in. I think
that we've all done a good job of
identifying Ptor Yan would be the right
guy for this occasion. I didn't know he
was going to get the fight. And by the
way, to return to T-Mobile where he just
competed, but now to step up to the main
event, I think it's a big compliment and
speaks to the star power of Morab. It's
a big deal for Mob to fight this fight
against Pota in a rematch. But chill,
this could give him the record for title
defenses in a calendar year. This will
be the fourth time this guy's defended
this belt in a year. Chill, he beat
Umar. He beat Ali. He beat Corey
Sanhagen. And if he wins against Pota
Yan, a guy who he has beaten before,
Barame Wallace really will have
shattered the record. No one defends a
championship that many times in that
short a period of times. But Alesandre
Pantoia has not been inactive. He has
fought multiple times this year, but
he's fighting a Joshua Van kid who is
still so young in his career. But Joshua
Vanel was just involved in one of the
greatest fights we've ever seen against
Brandon Roy Val. This is going to be a
battle for the UFC flyweight
championship also. Yeah, it's it's a
very interesting match and the way that
they're speeding them through. I mean,
anytime you can put an an entire and in
this case, it's going to be 25 pounders
and 35 pounders, but anytime you can put
that entire end of the spectrum on
display, it's very good for those two
divisions. Look, there's more coming.
Dana made a hint that there's more
coming. I got a little bit of a guess.
I'm going to have to leave it at that.
But as far as news coming from the boss,
pretty big deal how we're going to wrap
the year. pretty big deal to end the
year with some history on the line
because Morab is trying to do what he's
trying to do and Pantoia has proven to
be as difficult and out for anyone in
his division. Joshua Van will be up to
the challenge chill. T-Mobile Arena is
always great. The last fight card of the
year is always great. And I believe that
with these types of fights and with
these storylines, it will deliver once