{"id":1440,"date":"2023-06-16T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2023-06-17T22:26:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T21:26:52","slug":"cory-sandhagen-vs-umar-nurmagomedov-headlines-ufc-nashville-card-on-aug-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/cory-sandhagen-vs-umar-nurmagomedov-headlines-ufc-nashville-card-on-aug-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Sandhagen vs. Umar Nurmagomedov headlines UFC Nashville card on Aug. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UFC has booked a bantamweight main event between Cory Sandhagen and Umar Nurmagomedov to headline a Fight Night card Aug. 5 in Nashville, the promotion announced Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two of the bantamweight division&#8217;s top fighters, Cory Sandhagen and Umar Nurmagomedov, will be in the spotlight when the UFC returns to Tennesse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While rumors have been talking about this bantamweight shock for several weeks, the meeting between Cory Sandhagen (16-4) and Umar Nurmagomedov (16-0) has been formalized by Dana White, the president of the UFC. The two men will face off in the main event of UFC Nashville on August 5 at Bridgestone Arena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organization&#8217;s last appearance in the state of Tennessee dates back to March 23, 2019, when former welterweight title challenger Stephen Thompson won by KO in the second round against the ex-lightweight champion, Anthony Pettis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cory Sandhagen, currently ranked number 4 in the bantamweight division, has won his last two fights beating title contenders Song Yadong and Marlon Vera. Before that, the 31-year-old American remained on two consecutive defeats against former champions, Petr Yan and TJ. Dillashaw.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facing him, Umar Nurmagomedov, 27, will play the first UFC main event of his career. The ex-lightweight champion&#8217;s cousin, Khabib Nurmagomedov, has won all of his UFC fights winning by knockout over Raoni Barcelos in his last Octagon appearance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the addition of the main event between Sandhagen and Nurmagomedov, here is the current schedule for UFC Nashville on August 5:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cory Sandhagen vs. Umar Nurmagomedov<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Virna Jandiroba vs. Tatiana Su\u00e1rez<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Said Nurmagomedov vs. Kyler Phillips<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ion Cutelaba vs. Ovince Saint-Preux<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Ludovit Klein<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Damon Jackson vs. Billy Quarantillo<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dustin Jacoby vs. Kennedy Nzechukwu<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Asu Almabaev vs. Ode Osbourne<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jake Hadley vs. Tagir Ulanbekov<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC has booked a bantamweight main event between Cory Sandhagen and Umar Nurmagomedov to headline a Fight Night card Aug. 5 in Nashville, the promotion announced Thursday. Two of the bantamweight division&#8217;s top fighters, Cory Sandhagen and Umar Nurmagomedov, will be in the spotlight when the UFC returns to Tennesse. While rumors have been talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}