The UFC heads to Salt Lake City this Saturday night, August 6, with a decent offering on Fox Sports 1.
In the main event, The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America winner and rising talent Yair Rodriguez gets his first crack at a headlining slot against talented veteran Alex Caceres. Rodriguez is a potential star in his native Mexico, but he’s relatively unknown outside the MMA bubble, and this is a big opportunity for him to demonstrate that he’s worth the UFC’s future investment.
While the card lacks big names, it’s long on potential action.
Rodriguez-Caceres should be a barnburner between two talented fighters. In the co-main event, Dennis Bermudez takes on Brazilian TUF winner Rony Jason in a crackling matchup that’s more about entertainment than a future title shot for either fighter.
While the middleweight bout between Thales Leites and Chris Camozzi is an exception, the rest of the main card should deliver. Santiago Ponzinibbio and Zak Cummings aren’t well-known, but they’re fun and violent.
Blue-chip prospect Joseph Gigliotti, who has finished each of his seven wins, gets a chance to make a splash in his debut against the veteran Trevor Smith. The main card’s opener between Ukrainian Maryna Moroz and Danielle Taylor is yet another violent matchup, at least on paper.
The same pattern holds for the preliminary card. Cub Swanson takes on Tatsuya Kawajiri in an excellent Fight Pass main event, Court McGee and Dominique Steele headline the Fox Sports 1 prelims, and the featherweight battle between prospects Teruto Ishihara and Horacio Gutierrez is one to watch.
There’s action everywhere you look. Let’s dive into each and every fight.