Eye, Calvillo To Headline June 13 Show A women’s flyweight encounter between former title challenger Jessica Eye and Cynthia Calvillo is set to headline the UFC’s upcoming June 13 event. That’s according to an initial report from ESPN stating that both fighters have agreed to the bout. The event isn’t official as of yet while […]
Eye, Calvillo To Headline June 13 Show
A women’s flyweight encounter between former title challenger Jessica Eye and Cynthia Calvillo is set to headline the UFC’s upcoming June 13 event.
That’s according to an initial report from ESPN stating that both fighters have agreed to the bout. The event isn’t official as of yet while there isn’t any word on a location or venue either.
However, if sports are to resume in Nevada amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is likely that it will take place at the UFC’s Apex facility in Las Vegas.
Eye is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Viviane Araújo in December. It marked a return to the win column for the Ohio native following her devastating second-round headkick knockout defeat to Valentina Shevchenko in their women’s flyweight title fight last June. She had previously won her three flyweight fights leading up to the Shevchenko setback.
As for Calvillo, her last outing was in December as well when she fought Marina Rodriguez to a majority decision draw in a women’s strawweight bout. The Team Alpha Male fighter notably missed weight for that fight prompting her to make the move up to 125 pounds. In total, she is 5-1-1 with the UFC since making her debut in 2017.
More fights are expected to be announced in the coming days for the June 13 event.
What do you make of Eye and Calvillo headlining the show?
A key flyweight bout between Jessica Eye and Cynthia Calvillo is set to headline the UFC’s upcoming Fight Night card on June 13. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto was first to report the news that the fight was set to headline the card with Eye confirmi…
A key flyweight bout between Jessica Eye and Cynthia Calvillo is set to headline the UFC’s upcoming Fight Night card on June 13. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto was first to report the news that the fight was set to headline the card with Eye confirming she was the main event on social media. Jessica Eye returned […]
In our co-main event of UFC DC, Marina Rodriguez meets Cynthia Calvillo at women’s strawweight. Round 1: Rodriguez catches Calvillo with a right hand and she responds with a leg kick. Calvillo gets a takedown and is into half guard. Rodriguez gets to her feet and rips off a nice combination. Calvillo presses Rodriguez against […]
In our co-main event of UFC DC, Marina Rodriguez meets Cynthia Calvillo at women’s strawweight.
Round 1:
Rodriguez catches Calvillo with a right hand and she responds with a leg kick. Calvillo gets a takedown and is into half guard. Rodriguez gets to her feet and rips off a nice combination. Calvillo presses Rodriguez against the cage looking for the takedown. Calvillo with another takedown and right into full mount. The round comes to an end.
Round 2:
Pretty uneventful round so far. Rodriguez gets in a nice knee off a failed Calvillo takedown attempt. Rodriguez lands a nice body kick. More knees and elbows from Rodriguez as Calvillo fails on several takedown attempts. Front kick to the body lands for Calvillo. The round comes to an end.
Round 3:
Calvillo gets the takedown into half guard. Side control for Calvillo. Calvillo takes Rodriguez’s back and unloads with ground-and-pound. Rodriguez is able to get to her feet and she circles out. The fight comes to an end.
Official Result: Marina Rodriguez vs. Cynthia Calvillo ends via Majority Draw (29-28, 28-28, 28-28)
Marina Rodriguez vs. Cynthia Calvillo went the distance at UFC Washington. The story of the fight was pretty simple. In the first and third rounds, Calvillo controlled the fight with her takedowns and ground control while landing strikes. In the second…
Marina Rodriguez vs. Cynthia Calvillo went the distance at UFC Washington. The story of the fight was pretty simple. In the first and third rounds, Calvillo controlled the fight with her takedowns and ground control while landing strikes. In the second round, Marina showed that she was a better striker and even hurt her with […]
Paige VanZant finally has a fight. She’ll be taking on Amanda Ribas at the upcoming UFC Brasilia event in March. It will be the final fight on her current UFC deal before VanZant tests free agency. VanZant had previously been called out several times by Maycee Barber, but opted to decline the young contender’s numerous […]
It will be the final fight on her current UFC deal before VanZant tests free agency. VanZant had previously been called out several times by Maycee Barber, but opted to decline the young contender’s numerous callouts due to their brash nature. Instead, VanZant made an Instagram post demanding a fight from the UFC, tagging several female combatants in the post.
One of those combatants was none other than VanZant’s former teammate, Cynthia Calvillo. Calvillo actually responded to VanZant’s post, but apparently kept having her comments deleted by VanZant.
“Normally when it comes to Paige, I feel like I just roll my eyes because it’s like whatever,” Calvillo told MMA Fighting. “I know her, I know who she is, I know what she’s all about. We actually lived together for a little bit. I know her very, very well. For me, I personally do not care. I don’t care what she does.
“We’re on two different paths when it comes to fighting but she did put me in that list of fighters. I know she was just trying to take a jab at Maycee [Barber] what I did not like myself is that she had a lot of fighters that she tagged reply to her post and she would reply to them and acknowledge them. If I would reply to it, she would just delete it and I was like why are you doing that? It’s really annoying.”
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In the end, Calvillo isn’t too worried about VanZant, who she says isn’t even a good fighter.
“For me, I really don’t care. I just don’t think that she’s a good fighter. I really don’t respect her too much as a real martial artist. I don’t hate on anyone for how they want to become successful and what she wants to do or how she wants to get it done, all on her, nothing against me, but if she starts including me and putting my name in her mouth?” Calvillo said.
“We’re on two different paths. I want to be a world champion. I want to be the best. She’s not in my concern in any kind of way. I don’t feel like me beating her would mean anything but I did [find it] bothersome with her calling me out and just deleting my replies. I feel like that’s more disrespectful. She would say it’s a respectable call out but yet delete replies. It was a lot of bullcrap.”
What do you think about Calvillo’s comments towards VanZant?
The UFC is heading back to Washington D.C. on Dec. 7 at the Capital One Arena. Now, two high-profile women’s fight has been added to the card according to ESPN. while Claudia Gadelha will fight Cynthia Calvillo in a strawweight bout. Meanwhile, Aspen Ladd will return after being knocked out to Germaine de Randamie to […]
The UFC is heading back to Washington D.C. on Dec. 7 at the Capital One Arena.
Now, two high-profile women’s fight has been added to the card according toESPN. while Claudia Gadelha will fight Cynthia Calvillo in a strawweight bout. Meanwhile, Aspen Ladd will return after being knocked out to Germaine de Randamie to take on Yana Kunitskaya.
Gadelha, got back into the win column last time out as she beat Randa Markos by decision at UFC 239. Before that, she dropped a decision to Nina Ansraroff. She is currently ranked fifth in the division. Calvillo, meanwhile, is ranked 11th and on a two-fight winning streak after beating Poliana Botelho and Cortney Casey.
Ladd, as mentioned, is coming off of her first professional loss when she lost to de Randamie in the main event of UFC Sacramento. She was knocked out in 16 seconds, in what many thought it was an early stoppage. Before that, she beat Sijara Eubanks, Tonya Evinger and Lina Lansberg in her UFC bouts.
Kunitskaya, meanwhile, is on a two-fight winning streak after beating Lina Lansberg, and Marion Reneau. She has also fought for the featherweight title before where she was knocked out by Cris Cyborg.
