UFC 249 Preview And Prediction

6. Preliminary Card Preview

One of the very few positives to come from numerous cards being cancelled due to the current crisis is that the UFC have managed to take the best fights and create a super card because of it.

The Fight Pass prelims feature three exceptional battles, with the earlier mentioned scrap between Spann and Alvey, being joined by dynamic featherweights Bryce Mitchell and Charles Rosa and fight-finishing 170lbers, Vicente Luque and Niko Price. Although all three promises fireworks, the rematch between Luque and Price has serious fight of the night potential.

The ESPN prelims are even better, featuring former champions and title contenders throughout the four-fight under card. Although a middleweight battle between Uriah Hall and Jacare Souza and women's strawweight scrap between Carl Esparza and Michelle Waterson are bound to be fun, it's the last two fights before the main card that have us salivating.

The greatest heavyweight submission artist of all time, Fabricio Werdum, takes on another fearsome grappler in Aleksei Oleinik and former foes, Donald Cerrone and Anthony Pettis, do battle at welterweight in what should be the perfect appetiser for the stellar main card.