{"id":192929,"date":"2016-04-28T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=192929"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T18:25:22","slug":"joanne-calderwood-valerie-letourneau-make-history-ufc-fight-night-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/valerie-letourneau\/joanne-calderwood-valerie-letourneau-make-history-ufc-fight-night-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Calderwood and Valerie Letourneau to make history at UFC Fight Night 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s MMA is still growing and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/joanne-calderwood\/\">Joanne Calderwood<\/a> (10-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/watch-valerie-letourneau-highlight-video\/\">Valerie Letourneau<\/a> (8-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) are stamping their place in UFC history at UFC Fight Night 89.<\/p>\n<p>Calderwood and Letourneau will meet in Ottawa, Canada on June 18 at The Arena at TD Place in the UFC&#8217;s very first women&#8217;s flyweight bout.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC announced the bout on Thursday. &#8220;The bout marks the UFC\u2019s first ever women\u2019s 125-pound fight, but is not the launch of a new division,&#8221; the UFC stated in a release. &#8220;UFC officials are looking into possibly opening a women\u2019s flyweight division in the future, but until the time when or if such a division is permanently announced, there remain two women\u2019s divisions (bantamweight and strawweight) and there will be no rankings set up for a 125-pound women\u2019s class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UFC Fight Night 89 is already a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-fight-night-89\/ufc-fight-night-89-ottawa-card-sets-new-record\/\">record-setting event<\/a> headlined by <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rory-macdonald\/bellators-scott-coker-rory-macdonald-hes-guy-wed-interested-talking\/\">Rory MacDonald<\/a> taking on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/stephen-thompson\/fighters-react-to-stephen-wonderboy-thompsons-tko-of-johny-hendricks\/\">Stephen &#8220;Wonderboy&#8221; Thompson<\/a> where the winner could likely be the next to fight for the welterweight title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s MMA is still growing and Joanne Calderwood (10-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) and Valerie Letourneau (8-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) are stamping their place in UFC history at UFC Fight Night 89. 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