Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva will struggle for the vacant UFC ladies’s bantamweight title at UFC 297 on January twentieth.
Ag.Combat was the primary to report the information of the Pennington vs. Bueno Silva vacant title reserving.
It was speculated that the vacant ladies’s bantamweight title could be fought for by Julianna Peña and Pennington at a later date. However, it seems that the harm Peña suffered forward of her deliberate UFC 289 trilogy with Amanda Nunes is delaying her return.
Bueno Silva will step up and face Pennington after a three-fight profitable streak. She submitted Holly Holm in her most up-to-date struggle in July, however it was overturned to a no-contest after a USADA drug take a look at discovered a prohibited substance in her system.
Raquel Pennington vs. Mayra Bueno Silva Provides To UFC 297
UFC encaminha Raquel Pennington vs Mayra Bueno para o dia 20 de janeiro. A luta é válida pelo cinturão vago dos pesos-galos
— Ag. Combat (@AgFight) November 3, 2023
Pennington earned her second-career UFC title shot with a five-fight win streak. She most just lately defeated Ketlen Vieira by cut up resolution again in January.
Pennington was booked to face Irene Aldana in Could earlier than Peña’s UFC 289 withdrawal. Aldana ended up dropping to Nunes within the UFC 289 headliner.
Pennington vs. Bueno Silva is not anticipated to be the headliner for UFC 297. The UFC remains to be engaged on reserving a primary occasion for the cardboard, which was initially anticipated to be Alexander Volkanovski vs. Ilia Topuria.
UFC 297 would not have a location and venue booked as of this writing, though it has been rumored to happen in Toronto, Canada.
