Junior dos
Santos will compete outside the
Ultimate Fighting Championship for the first time in nearly 14
years when the former heavyweight titleholder makes his
Eagle Fighting Championship debut opposite Yorgan De
Castro in the
EFC 47 headliner on Friday at the FLXcast Arena in Miami.
Meanwhile, onetime Bellator
MMA champion Hector
Lombard locks horns with Thiago
Silva in the three-round co-main event at 205 pounds. EFC 47
“Redemption”—https://watch.goflx.com/—also
features a middleweight tilt matching Maki Pitolo
with Douglas
Usher, a light heavyweight affair pitting Gabriel
Checco against Andrew
Sanchez and a lightweight clash pairing Akhmed
Aliev with Darrell
Horcher.
A closer look at the EFC 47 particulars:
THE LINEUP
265: Junior dos
Santos vs. Yorgan De
Castro
205: Hector
Lombard vs. Thiago
Silva
185: Maki Pitolo
vs. Douglas
Usher
205: Gabriel
Checco vs. Andrew
Sanchez
155: Akhmed
Aliev vs. Darrell
Horcher
155: Islam
Mamedov vs. Zach Zane
205: Ronny
Markes vs. Reggie
Pena
155: Alexandre
Almeida vs. Roosevelt
Roberts
155: Sean
Soriano vs. Paulo
Silva
135: Adi
Alic vs. Shawn
Bunch
155: Dylan
Mantello vs. Dennis
Hughes Jr.
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