{"id":244868,"date":"2017-07-20T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=244868"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:27:56","slug":"two-title-fights-set-ufc-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/demetrious-johnson\/two-title-fights-set-ufc-215\/","title":{"rendered":"Two title fights set for UFC 215"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news surfaced Thursday morning regarding two title fights. UFC President Dana White informed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/two-title-fights-headline-ufc-215-in-edmonton-1.809726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TSN<\/a> this morning that UFC 215, which is set to take place at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, on September 9th, will feature a main event scrap between UFC flyweight kingpin Demetrious Johnson, and top contender Ray Borg, with a women&#8217;s bantamweight showdown between Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko set for the co-main event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Johnson vs. Borg and Nunes vs. Shevchenko set for UFC 215 on September 9th. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mZdAeMIo0n\">pic.twitter.com\/mZdAeMIo0n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Se\u00e1n Sheehan (@SeanSheehanBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanSheehanBA\/status\/888131367313301505\">July 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Johnson vs. Borg is a fight which looked highly unlikely at one point in time. After Johnson agreed to the fight, he and Dana White were involved in a very bitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-fires-back-at-demetrious-johnson1\/\">and very public, spat<\/a> which saw Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-fires-back-at-demetrious-johnson1\/\">release a lengthy letter<\/a> regarding the matter, in which he accused Dana White of threatening to shut down the flyweight division if he were not to renege on his agreement to fight Ray Borg, and sign to fight TJ Dillashaw.<\/p>\n<p>The co-main event scrap between Nunes and Shevchenko, of course was recently scheduled for UFC 213 earlier this month. Unfortunately, the day of the fight, Nunes was hospitalized after reportedly feeling ill, and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/amanda-nunes\/dana-white-amanda-nunes-cleared-to-fight-pulled-out-anyway\/\">the fight was called off.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who do you have winning in these highly anticipated fights? Let us know in the comments section below!<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 7\/20\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news surfaced Thursday morning regarding two title fights. UFC President Dana White informed TSN this morning that UFC 215, which is set to take place at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, on September 9th, will feature a main event scrap between UFC flyweight kingpin Demetrious Johnson, and top contender Ray Borg, with a women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":233707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10274,10171],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two title fights set for UFC 215 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two title fights have now been set for UFC 215 in Edmonton, Canada on September 9th, including a flyweight title fight for Demetrious Johnson.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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