Chiesa-Pettis bout added to UFC 226 in Las Vegas
Lightweights Michael Chiesa and Anthony Pettis will step in the cage against each other after all.
The bout has been rescheduled for UFC 226 on July 7 in Las Vegas, sources close to the organization confirmed to the Review-Journal on Tuesday after reports surfaced online late Monday.
Chiesa and Pettis were scheduled to fight at Barclays Center on April 7 in Brooklyn, but Chiesa was forced out of the fight when he suffered facial lacerations from broken glass when Conor McGregor threw a dolly through the window of a bus.
Pettis, the former lightweight champion, nearly got the opportunity to reclaim the belt. He was proposed as a candidate to replace Max Holloway in the main event of the card against Khabib Nurmagomedov, but the details weren’t worked out.
Chiesa’s last octagon appearance was a controversial loss to contender Kevin Lee in June when he disputed a referee’s ruling that he went unconscious from a choke.
The loss snapped a three-fight winning streak.
Pettis, who is 2-5 in his last seven fights, is coming off a loss to Dustin Poirier. He is 1-1 since returning to 155 pounds.
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