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After a year and a half away from the Octagon, the first-ever UFC female featherweight champion is now officially back and set to do battle.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands’ greatest female striker Germaine De Randamie essentially vanished from MMA after her big title win over Holly Holm at UFC 208 to continue pursuing her career as a police officer.<\/p>\n

She is now set to return and will do so in her original home of the bantamweight division as the\u00a0UFC<\/a>\u00a0announced today that she takes on the recent title challenger, Raquel Pennington at UFC Denver on November 10th.<\/p>\n

PhotoCred: FanSided<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Never losing her title, De Randamie was instead stripped of it for refusing to face the now champion Cris\u00a0“Cyborg” Justino<\/a> due to her past with performance-enhancing drugs. That along with needing to recover from a hand injury and having her eyes on returning to 135 regardless all put the UFC in an obvious position to take the title away.<\/p>\n

But now she is back and set to take on a formidable foe in “Rocky” Pennington.<\/p>\n

Prior to her title challenge loss at UFC 224, Pennington was riding the second best winning streak in the division outside of the champion Amanda Nunes.<\/p>\n

Now looking to rebound and earn her second career win over a former UFC champion, this matchup is guaranteed fireworks.<\/p>\n

Also added to UFC Denver was a strawweight matchup between The Ultimate Fighter season 23 alums Amanda Bobby Cooper and Ashley Yoder. Both fighters are coming off of losses to Mackenzie Dern.<\/p>\n

As for the rest of the UFC Denver card so far, it currently looks as follows:<\/p>\n

Featherweight – 145lbs: Frankie Edgar vs. Chan Sung Jung<\/em><\/p>\n

Welterweight – 170lbs: Donald Cerrone vs. Mike Perry<\/em><\/p>\n

Flyweight – 125lbs: Joseph Benavidez vs. Ray Borg<\/em><\/p>\n

Strawweight – 115lbs: Maycee Barber vs. Maia Stevenson<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com<\/a> on 8\/9\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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