{"id":292968,"date":"2018-11-28T07:19:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=292968"},"modified":"2018-11-28T07:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:19:57","slug":"aleksandra-albu-emily-whitmire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/aleksandra-albu-emily-whitmire\/","title":{"rendered":"At UFC 233, Aleksandra Albu returns for second bout since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A compelling women&#8217;s strawweight matchup has been added to the UFC 233 lineup, as\u00a0Aleksandra Albu is set to face Oregon&#8217;s Emily Whitmire on the card.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC&#8217;s official Russian Twitter account confirmed the news on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCRussia\/status\/1067720018346106881<\/p>\n<p>Aleksandra Albu (3-0) has only fought twice since her UFC debut in Apr. 2015, when she defeated Izabela Badurek by second-round submission at UFC Fight Night 84. The 28-year-old is coming off a unanimous decision victory over\u00a0Kailin Curran at UFC 214 in July 2017. Albu has finished two of her three career opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Whitmire (3-2) is coming off her first career win in the Octagon. &#8220;Spitifire&#8221; earned a unanimous decision victory over Jamie Moyle at UFC 226 this past July. The 27-year-old lost to\u00a0Roxanne Modafferi on TUF 26 and also came up short in her UFC debut last December where she was submitted by Gillan Roberson. The Xtreme Couture product also holds a win over former Bellator flyweight title challenger Emily Ducote.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 233 takes place in\u00a0at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on Jan. 26. The card is headlined by bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw dropping down to flyweight to challenge flyweight champion Henry Cejudo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/28\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compelling women&#8217;s strawweight matchup has been added to the UFC 233 lineup, as\u00a0Aleksandra Albu is set to face Oregon&#8217;s Emily Whitmire on the card. The UFC&#8217;s official Russian Twitter account confirmed the news on Wednesday. https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCRussia\/status\/1067720018346106881 Aleksandra Albu (3-0) has only fought twice since her UFC debut in Apr. 2015, when she defeated Izabela [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54468,"featured_media":292975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10490,39610],"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>At UFC 233, Aleksandra Albu returns for second bout since 2015 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russian strawweight Aleksandra Albu is set to return to the Octagon at UFC 233, where she will battle Oregon&#039;s Emily Whitmire.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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