Cat Zingano Avoids Serious Eye Injury At UFC 232

Cat Zingano has walked out of UFC 232 without a serious injury. Zingano did battle with Megan Anderson on the FOX Sports 1 portion of the UFC 232 prelims. The bout didn’t last long and saw a bizarre finish. Anderson threw a head kick and her big …

Cat Zingano has walked out of UFC 232 without a serious injury. Zingano did battle with Megan Anderson on the FOX Sports 1 portion of the UFC 232 prelims. The bout didn’t last long and saw a bizarre finish. Anderson threw a head kick and her big toe caught the eye of Zingano. The fight […]

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Cat Zingano Eyes Gold at Both 135 & 145 After UFC 232

Cat Zingano has always been an ambitious fighter. With many stops and starts in her MMA career, she has often had to put those ambitions on hold due primarily to injuries. But now, Cat Zingano has made the decision to enter the featherweight division a…

Cat Zingano has always been an ambitious fighter. With many stops and starts in her MMA career, she has often had to put those ambitions on hold due primarily to injuries. But now, Cat Zingano has made the decision to enter the featherweight division and suddenly finds herself potentially one fight away from a title […]

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Megan Anderson Upset About State Of UFC Women’s Featherweight Division

Megan Anderson upset about the state of the UFC women’s featherweight division heading into her next fight. She’s slated to take on former title contender Cat Zingano in a women’s featherweight bout. This fight will take place on the preliminary portion of the card on FOX Sports 1. Anderson made her promotional debut when she […]

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Megan Anderson upset about the state of the UFC women’s featherweight division heading into her next fight. She’s slated to take on former title contender Cat Zingano in a women’s featherweight bout. This fight will take place on the preliminary portion of the card on FOX Sports 1.

Anderson made her promotional debut when she lost to former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm on the main card portion of the UFC 225 pay-per-view event. Coming into this fight, the former Invicta FC featherweight champion was on a four fight winning streak.

While doing a recent interview, she made it known that this division and where it’s at right now is upsetting to her. That is a problem considering she’s one of the division’s top stars.

“That actually pissed me off more than the location change,” Anderson told MMAjunkie. “I’m like, ‘If you want to fight in the division, then actively campaign to fight in that division instead of taking a fight at 135.’ Or campaigning for fights at 135. This is what you get when you bring in bantamweights to open up a division that’s not their weight division.”

At the end of the day, she hopes that should she win this fight then it will lead her to a title shot. However, when it comes to the UFC rankings these days, nothing is guaranteed and she understands that.

Potential Title Shot

“I hope it’s a No. 1 contender, but we don’t really that’s the thing,” Anderson said. “In the UFC, rankings don’t mean anything anymore. I’m hoping it’s a No. 1 contender, but you just never know. For me, I would rather see them start signing featherweights. That’s more of a priority for me than getting a title shot. I want to give a platform to show this division is marketable and is worth investing in. They start signing people instead of giving them fights at bantamweight.”

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Megan Anderson Doesn’t Like that Amanda Nunes Earned a Bad Reputation After Pulling Out of One Fight

Megan Anderson is ready for whatever gets thrown her way at UFC 232 — including a short notice title fight — but she’s only worried about Cat Zingano. In the lead up to the show on Saturday night in Los Angeles, a lot has been made about Anderson’s fig…

Megan Anderson is ready for whatever gets thrown her way at UFC 232 — including a short notice title fight — but she’s only worried about Cat Zingano. In the lead up to the show on Saturday night in Los Angeles, a lot has been made about Anderson’s fight against Zingano serving as a backup […]

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Cat Zingano Faces Megan Anderson in Featherweight Scrap at UFC 232

Cat Zingano will bump up to 145 pounds for her next fight as she takes on former Invicta FC champion Megan Anderson at UFC 232 on Dec. 29 in Las Vegas. UFC officials announced the pairing on Wednesday. Off to Vegas!@CatZingano faces off with @MeganA_MM…

Cat Zingano will bump up to 145 pounds for her next fight as she takes on former Invicta FC champion Megan Anderson at UFC 232 on Dec. 29 in Las Vegas. UFC officials announced the pairing on Wednesday. Off to Vegas!@CatZingano faces off with @MeganA_MMA in a featherweight matchup. #UFC232 pic.twitter.com/iUHKhq9Ohz — UFC (@ufc) October […]

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Cat Zingano vs. Megan Anderson Targeted For UFC 232

Cat Zingano vs. Megan Anderson is in the works for this upcoming show.

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Cat Zingano vs. Megan Anderson is reportedly in the works of being booked for the upcoming UFC 232 pay-per-view event.

How We Got Here

ESPN’s Ariel Helwani reports this fight as the Las Vegas-based promotion is working on making this fight happen. It should be noted that this is just not a normal bout but rather an important one and here’s why.

This card also features the women’s featherweight title fight Cris Cyborg and bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes. This will serve as the co-headliner of the show. In case one of these fighters are forced to pull out of the scheduled super fight then Zingano or Anderson can step in and replace either fighter. This is purely a backup plan by the UFC.

Cat Zingano vs. Megan Anderson Breakdown

After taking a nearly two-year break from competition, Zingano returned to action at the UFC 222 pay-per-view event (March 3, 2018) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is when the former title challenger dropped a split decision to Ketlen Vieira.

This marked her third straight loss, which also meant that she had not won a fight in three years since defeating current bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 178. That all changed once she beat Marion Reneau at UFC Boise in July.

Anderson on the flip side made her promotional debut when she lost to former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm on the main card portion of the UFC 225 pay-per-view event. Coming into this fight, the former Invicta FC featherweight champion was on a four fight winning streak.

The Event

The UFC 232 pay-per-view event is set to take place on Saturday, December 29, 2018 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main card will air on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card will air on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass.

Card

The promotion will be announcing more bouts in the coming weeks. Here is the updated card:

Jon Jones vs. Alexander Gustafsson for the vacant light heavyweight title

UFC Featherweight Champion Cristiane Justino vs. Amanda Nunes

Corey Anderson vs. Ilir Latifi

Ryan Hall vs. B.J. Penn

Arnold Allen vs. Gilbert Melendez

Michael Chiesa vs. Carlos Condit

Cat Zingano vs. Megan Anderson

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