A featherweight unification bout between reigning UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski and interim title holder Yair Rodriguez will be part of UFC 290 on July 8 in Las Vegas.
Well-known sports columnist Ariel Helwani announced the organization of the fight, thereby confirming the information of Fox Sports Australia, announced three weeks ago.
On February 11 at UFC 284 in Perth, Alex Volkanovski made an unsuccessful attempt to take away the UFC lightweight title from Islam Makhachev, losing to the Russian by unanimous decision, and Yair Rodriguez in the second most important event of the event finished with a triangle choke of American Josh Emmett and won the interim UFC championship belt in featherweight category.
The UFC 290 tournament will be the final event of the annual International Fight Week, which the world’s strongest league traditionally held in early July in Las Vegas.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/31232-aleks-volkanovski-i-yair-rodriges-vstretyatsya-na-ufc-290.html?rand=19907
