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Michelle Waterson-Angela Hill Elevated to UFC Fight Night 177 Main Event


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An upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship card has an unexpected new main event.

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On Wednesday night, Glover Teixeira was forced to withdraw from his headliner against Thiago Santos. The two light heavyweights topped UFC Fight Night 177 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Sept. 12, and the promotion briefly searched for a new main event. In its stead will be former co-main matchup Michelle Waterson (17-8) vs. Angela Hill (12-8) at strawweight, per ESPN.

Unlike other recent short-notice replacement main events like Anthony Smith-Aleksandar Rakic and Edmen Shahbazyan-Derek Brunson, this bout will be a five-round affair. Both women former Invicta Fighting Championships titleholders, each have competed in multiple five-round fights before. This will be Hill’s first career headliner, while Waterson has served in the top billing on two UFC cards and three more in Invicta.

Waterson is looking to bounce back from consecutive decision defeats to former strawweight queens Carla Esparza and Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The main event loss to Jedrzejczyk snapped a three-fight win streak where she captured decision verdicts over Cortney Casey, Felice Herrig and former title challenger Karolina Kowalkiewicz. Despite reaching the scorecards in each of her last six outings, “The Karate Hottie” maintains a solid finish rate of 71 percent throughout her career that began in 2007.

Hill will likewise be looking to get back to the win column after a controversial setback in May to Claudia Gadelha. Although Hill dropped a split decision to “Claudinha,” only four of the 17 scoring media members awarded the fight to Gadelha. Like the aforementioned loss for Waterson, that defeat for Hill blunted the momentum of a three-fight win streak, where she scored two finishes in the span of about four months.

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