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 UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakić (also known as UFC Fight Night 175, UFC on ESPN+ 33 and UFC Vegas 8) is an upcoming mixed martial arts game created by the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a nice place to locate on the UFC APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States on August 30, 2020.

Main card (ESPN+)

Weight class Method Round Time Notes

Light Heavyweight         Anthony Smith vs. Aleksandar Rakić

Welterweight                         Robbie Lawler vs. Neil Magny

Women's Flyweight         Ji Yeon Kim vs. Alexa Grasso

Featherweight                 Ricardo Lamas vs. Bill Algeo

Light Heavyweight          Magomed Ankalaev vs. Ion Cuțelaba

Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)

Middleweight                   Maki Pitolo vs. Impa Kasanganay

Middleweight                   Alessio Di Chirico vs. Zak Cummings

Catchweight (151 lb)           Alex Caceres vs. Austin Springer

Welterweight                           Sean Brady   vs.   Christian Aguilera

Women's Flyweight           Polyana Viana vs. Emily Whitmire

Catchweight (117 lb)            Mallory Martin vs. Hannah Cifers

In the beginning, promotional officers had centered on a middleweight battle among The amazing race: Latin America middleweight champion Yair guzmán and Zabit Magomedsharipov to act headliner for the occasion. However, on August 5, Rodríguez with ankle injury pulled out of the contest and Magomedsharipov announced that he would no longer compete on the occasion as well. The pairing transformed into the first scheduled to take place in September 2018 at UFC 228, but Rodríguez still pulled out with harm from that occasion. It is now proposed the pairing will be rescheduled for UFC 254.

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It developed into an announcement on August 15 that a mild heavyweight fight between former UFC Light Heavyweight Championship contender Anthony Smith and Aleksandar Rakić is scheduled to work a prevalent 3-sphere event.

Emily Whitmire converted into expected to progress Polyana Viana in a women's strawweight fight at UFC 248 this year.[8] Nevertheless, Whitmire weighed in at 117.five kilograms, one and a half kilograms over the non-name strawweight fighting maximum. She eventually transformed into hospitalized on the occasion day, canceling the war accordingly. For this reason, though, the match was rescheduled in a women's flyweight fight.

A summary of Smith vs. Rakic 

Marley is mindful that the battle arrives with an enthusiastic urgent background for Smith (33-15), 32, who has lost his battles in the lopsided fashion past three. His ultimate look finished with a lengthy beating applied by No. 4-ranked Glover Teixeira in roughly as many analysts thought they wanted to be recognized as off well before it got implemented to a merciful giving up early in the 5th spherical. In comparison, Smith got battered by Jones around the Octagon in his shot of the name in March 2019.

Even so, with a fourth-sphere submission of their June 2019 fight, "Lionheart" reinforced his trademark fortitude by pulling a disillusioned former name challenger Alexander Gustafsson.

Rakic (12-2) earlier botched his professional MMA debut than he reeled off eight straight stoppage wins. The 28-year-old Austrian fighter made his UFC debut in September 2017 and debuted as a threat at the back of four instant victories, with the gap falling in.

His sole UFC loss came here in the last year's December in an arguable breakup pick to No. 7-ranked Volkan Oezdemir. Later, in February he became appointed to a whole new six-combat contract. You will see the desired solutions to Marley's Smith vs. Rakic here.

Top UFC Match Night predictions: Smith vs. Rakic 

We're going to make one percent of each of Marley's UFC Fight Night options here: He's behind Mallory Martin (-300) in a strawweight women's contest to get a stoppage victory over Hannah Cifers (+250).

Cifers (10-6) misguided 3 instant fights to counter a -fight prevailing run, but it's always worth mentioning that every 3 losses came to Angela Hill, Mackenzie Dern, and Mariya Agapova the potentialities here. Local North Carolina's 28-year-old vintage will give her fourth 2020 Octagon appearance. Martin (6-3), 26, is searching for her first win behind the UFC flag after a loss in her debut. The local Denver secured a roster spot with a victory on "Dana White's Challenger Game," but dropped in December of the last year due to second-sphere submission to Virna Jandiroba.

"This battle is tight at the bottom, but, Martin will switch for takedowns and in all probability brings the war to the floors," Marley told SportsLine. "If she does, she may choose to give up with elbows or surrender in the fight.