{"id":356657,"date":"2020-07-20T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=356657"},"modified":"2020-07-20T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:28:09","slug":"dana-white-praises-amanda-ribas-says-she-will-fight-again-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-praises-amanda-ribas-says-she-will-fight-again-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White praises Amanda Ribas, says she will fight again this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White praised women&#8217;s flyweight contender Amanda Ribas and said she will return to the Octagon this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Ribas is coming off of a first-round armbar <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paige-vanzant-issues-statement-following-submission-loss-to-amanada-ribas-at-ufc-251\/\">submission win over Paige VanZant<\/a> in the main card pay-per-view opener at UFC 251. The win upped Ribas&#8217; record in the UFC to 4-0 with wins over VanZant, Randa Markos, Mackenzie Dern, and Emily Whitmire. White and the UFC are always looking for the next big thing, especially in the women&#8217;s weight divisions, and Ribas appears like she could break out and become a massive star for the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZb9zaKQYJw&amp;t=614s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporters<\/a> following UFC Fight Island 2, White glowed about what Ribas has accomplished inside and outside of the Octagon in such a short period of time in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huge,&#8221; White said of Ribas&#8217; potential. &#8220;Overnight, she got 100,000 new followers on social media and everybody was talking about her. When you go out &#8212; you couldn&#8217;t perform better than she did. In the fight, in the interview, and just doing the things you need to do when you&#8217;re in that position. I mean, that&#8217;s why we put her on the main card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-reacts-after-ufc-251-reportedly-banks-1-3-million-pay-per-view-buys\/\">With 1.3 million fans purchasing the UFC 251 pay-per-view<\/a>, which featured Kamaru Usman defending the UFC welterweight title against Jorge Masvidal in the main event, Ribas&#8217; flawless performance over VanZant was seen by far more people than usual. It was arguably the most dominant win of her unbeaten UFC career to date, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-reacts-to-paige-vanzants-submission-loss-at-ufc-251-she-should-definitely-test-free-agency\/\">with White saying that Ribas &#8220;smoked&#8221; VanZant in the UFC 251 post-fight press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UFC president, the promotion has been alerted by Ribas that she wants to return to the Octagon in the next few months. White was non-committal about when and where she would be fighting but said the matchmakers plan on talking about her next opponent once they return home to Las Vegas following their month-long trip to Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She wants to fight again in the fall. Again, we&#8217;ll get home, we&#8217;ll get her figured out, and we&#8217;ll see her again soon,&#8221; Dana White confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Although the 26-year-old Brazilian Ribas defeated VanZant in a flyweight bout, she has fought the majority of her UFC career as a strawweight. The matchmakers essentially have free reign to book her in either weight class at this point. Ribas is currently unranked at strawweight and is the No. 12 ranked women&#8217;s flyweight in the UFC right now.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you want Amanda Ribas to fight next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White praised women&#8217;s flyweight contender Amanda Ribas and said she will return to the Octagon this fall. Ribas is coming off of a first-round armbar submission win over Paige VanZant in the main card pay-per-view opener at UFC 251. The win upped Ribas&#8217; record in the UFC to 4-0 with wins over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":354332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[79857,39610],"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>Dana White praises Amanda Ribas, says she will fight again this fall | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC president Dana White praised women&#039;s flyweight contender Amanda Ribas and said she will return to the Octagon this fall.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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