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The card for July’s UFC 214 just got bigger – literally – as six fights have been added to the event.
Of note among the matchups announced on “UFC Tonight,” Chan Sung Jung and Ricardo Lamas will do battle in a featherweight showdown, while Aljamain Sterling takes on former UFC bantamweight champion Renan Barao.
After three-and-half years away from the octagon, Jung (14-4 MMA, 4-1 UFC) returned in a big way in February when he knocked out Dennis Bermudez in the first round at UFC Fight Night 104. Jung, who challenged Jose Aldo for the featherweight title in 2013, needed just 2:49 land a vicious uppercut that finished off Bermudez and put the “The Korean Zombie” right back in the top five.
Lamas (17-5 MMA, 8-3 UFC), also a former title challenger, has alternated wins and losses in his last five fights. Most recently, he submitted Charles Oliveira with a guillotine choke last November at The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America Finale in Mexico City.
Both Sterling (13-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and Barao (34-4-1 MMA, 9-3 UFC) are coming off wins that snapped previous back-to-back losses.
For Sterling, he defeated Augusto Mendes via unanimous decision last month at UFC on FOX 24. Barao will not have fought in 10 months when he faces Sterling, with his last bout resulting in a unanimous-decision win over Phillipe Nover last September at UFC Fight Night 95.
UFC 214, which features a highly anticipated rematch between light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones, takes place July 29 in Anaheim, Calif, and airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass. The bout order has not been decided.
With these two fights and the others, UFC 214 now includes:
- Champ Daniel Cormier vs. Jon Jones – for light heavyweight title
- Renan Barao vs. Aljamain Sterling
- Chan Sung Jung vs. Ricardo Lamas
- Josh Burkman vs. Drew Dober
- Alexandra Albu vs. Kailin Curran
- Jarred Brooks vs. Eric Shelton
- Dmitrii Smoliakov vs. Adam Wieczorkowski
- Dooho Choi vs. Andre Fili
For more on UFC 214, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.