The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s return to Boston will feature
two title fights at the top of the card.

Dana White announced on Tuesday that UFC 292 will take place in
Boston on Aug. 19 and will be headlined by a bantamweight
championship clash between Aljamain
Sterling and Sean
O’Malley. In the co-main event, Weili Zhang
will defend her strawweight crown against Amanda
Lemos.

Sterling will make a relatively quick turnaround after taking a
hard-fought split-decision triumph against Henry
Cejudo in the UFC 288 main event on May 6. “The Funkmaster” has
won his last nine promotional appearances, a run that includes
successful title defenses against Cejudo, T.J.
Dillashaw and Petr Yan.

O’Malley, meanwhile, is unbeaten in his last five bouts and is 8-1
in UFC competition overall. One of the biggest stars to emerge from
Dana White’s Contender Series, “Sugar” Sean secured a title shot
with a cotentious split-decision win against Yan at UFC 280 this
past October.

Zhang is currently on her second reign as strawweight queen after
regaining the belt with a second-round submission of Carla
Esparza at UFC 281 on Nov. 12. The 33-year-old Fight Ready
representative has also earned wins over the likes of Joanna
Jedrzejczyk (twice), Jessica
Andrade and Tecia
Torres during her promotional tenure.

Lemos has been victorious in seven of her last eight UFC bouts —
with her lone defeat during that stretch coming at the hands of
Andrade. Most recently, the 35-year-old Brazilian scored a
third-round TKO of Marina
Rodriguez at UFC Fight Night 214 on Nov. 5.





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Aljamain Sterling-Sean O’Malley, Weili Zhang-Amanda Lemos Top UFC 292 Lineup