Fans can safely file Saturday’s 11-bout Fight Night show from the Apex in Las Vegas as a case of the latter. Though three pairs of UFC-ranked fighters are matched up against one another in three separate weight classes, none of the half dozen are ranked higher than seventh.
Middleweights Anthony Hernandez and Michel Pereira will headline a show that’ll air opposite playoff baseball and significant college football, and, ironically, also while former octagonal heavyweight menace Francis Ngannou makes his debut with a rival company.
The 31-year-old Hernandez has won five straight and six of eight since arriving to the promotion following a Season 2 appearance on Dana White’s Contender Series in 2018. Pereira, meanwhile, is also 31 and also arriving with a hot hand, having won eight in a row since a two-fight skid that following a successful UFC debut in 2019.
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