Latest Trailer and Fight Card for UFC 208

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The UFC is coming to pay-per-view soon, this time crowning its first women’s featherweight champion.
The inaugural title fight headlines the card, which takes place  Feb. 11 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Former bantamweight champion Holly Holm (10-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) moves up a weight class to fight fellow striker and 135-pound vet Germaine de Randamie (7-3 MMA, 3-1 UFC). Holm or de Randamie, who are respectively ranked No. 4 and No. 14 will become the third female UFC champion, along with bantamweight Amanda Nunes and strawweight Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
Holm, a former pro boxing champion, quickly rose through the ranks once she turned to MMA, but she enters UFC 208 with back-to-back losses. After a 10-0 start to her career that included an upset “Knockout of the Year” win over then-champ Ronda Rousey in late 2015 to win the title, the 35-year-old has since suffered losses to Miesha Tate and Valentina Shevchenko.
She’s going up against de Randamie, a 32-year-old Dutch kickboxer and former Strikeforce fighter.  After a 2013 loss to now-champ Nunes,  de Randamie rebounded with wins over Larissa Pacheco and Anna Elmose.
Here is the latest UFC 208 lineup:
  • Holly Holm vs. Germaine de Randamie –  for inaugural women’s featherweight title
  • Derek Brunson vs. Anderson Silva
  • Tim Boetsch vs. Ronaldo Souza
  • Jared Cannonier vs. Glover Teixeira
  • Jim Miller vs. Dustin Poirier
  • Randy Brown vs. George Sullivan
  • Wilson Reis vs. Ulka Sasaki
  • Nik Lentz vs. Islam Makhachev
  • Ian McCall vs. Neil Seery
  • Luis Henrique vs. Marcin Tybura
  • Roan Carneiro vs. Ryan LaFlare
  • Rick Glenn vs. Phillipe Nover

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