The UFC is set to make their return to Argentina as the year winds down and fights will be needed. Today we have gotten the first of many.<\/p>\n
Expected to have the country’s biggest name on the card in Santiago Ponzinibbio, nothing has come together yet for the top welterweight contender.<\/p>\n
However, we do now have a fun strawweight scrap between the returning Cynthia Calvillo and top Brazilian prospect Poliana Botelho set for the November 17th date.<\/p>\n
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Calvillo arrived in the UFC last year to receive an immediate push from the promotion\u00a0with two back to back pay-per-view main card spots (literally, as they were UFC 209 and UFC 210) that resulted in her coming out victorious.<\/p>\n
In what would be her third UFC fight of the year already and fourth overall, Calvillo would take on Joanne Calderwood in her home country of Scotland. As the co-main event, she again would come out on top against her biggest name opponent yet.<\/p>\n
This led Calvillo to a fifth and final fight of 2017 overall against the former UFC champion Carla Esparza at UFC 219.<\/p>\n
It was a hard fought battle that the former champion would get her hand raised in. Afterward, Calvillo would test positive for marijuana resulting in a suspension.<\/p>\n
But now she’s back and ready to take on a very hungry rising talent in Botelho.<\/p>\n
A flyweight before entering the UFC, the 29-year old 7-1 Botelho has won her last five with those wins coming over some very solid names in Silvana Juarez Gomes, Pearl Gonzalez, Karina Rodriguez and Syuri Kondo.<\/p>\n
Now 2-0 in the UFC, Botelho looks to be poised for big things especially after her ultra-impressive 33-second starching of Kondo in May at UFC Chile. That win was Botelho’s sixth by way of KO\/TKO.<\/p>\n
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