A bantamweight showdown between Rob Font and
Yadong
Song has been added to the UFC
292 lineup.
The Las Vegas-based promotion announced the booking on Wednesday
evening. UFC 292 takes place at TD Garden in Boston on Aug. 19 and
is headlined by a bantamweight championship bout pitting Aljamain
Sterling against Sean
O’Malley.
Font snapped a two-bout skid in his last outing, as he defeated
rising prospect Adrian
Yanez via first-round technical knockout at UFC 287 on April 8.
The 35-year-old Boston native owns other notable victories against
the likes of Cody
Garbrandt, Marlon
Moraes, Ricky
Simon, Sergio
Pettis and Matt
Schnell.
Song, meanwhile, has won four of his last five Octagon appearances.
The Team Alpha Male product is coming off a fifth-round technical
knockout win over Simon in the UFC on ESPN 45 headliner on April
29.
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UFC 292 in Boston Gets Rob Font-Yadong Song Bantamweight Clash