UFC Vegas 27 (Co-Main Event): Yan Xiaonan vs Carla Esparza Preview and Prediction

UFC Vegas 27 (Co-Main Event): Yan Xiaonan vs Carla Esparza Preview and Prediction

Yan Xiaonan vs Carla Esparza

The co-main event of UFC Vegas 27’s fight card will headline the fight between the undefeated UFC women’s strawweight fighter Yan Xiaonan facing the former strawweight champion Carla Esparza. Here is the Yan Xiaonan vs Carla Esparza Preview and Prediction.

UFC Vegas 27: Yan Xiaonan vs Carla Esparza Preview

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Carla Esparza and Yan Xiaonan

Yan Xiaonan is one of the most dangerous UFC women’s fighters who holds a perfect record of 6-0 inside UFC. Xiaonan is ranked number 3rd in the UFC women’s strawweight division and number 11th in the UFC women’s pound for pound rankings.

She is coming in this fight with her latest win against Claudia Gadelha at UFC on ESPN: Teixeira vs Santos. With her fellow Chinese fighter Zhang Weili losing her strawweight title against Rose Namajunas at UFC 261, Xiaonan will look forward to challenging Namajunas for her first title defense with a win in this fight.

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Carla Esparza is the inaugural UFC women’s strawweight champion who defeated Rose Namajunas at the TUF season 20 finale. But in her very next fight against Joanna Jedrzejczyk, she lost the UFC women’s strawweight title.

But now, Esparza is coming in this fight with a four-fight win streak with her latest win coming against Marina Rodriguez on UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs Till. She last fought in July 2020 and stepping inside the Octagon almost after a year.

With a win in this fight, she will also look forward to coming on the number one contender spot and face Rose Namajunas once again and expect a similar result as in their first faceoff.

UFC Vegas 27: Yan Xiaonan vs Carla Esparza Prediction

The undefeated UFC women’s strawweight fighter Yan Xiaonan is the fans favorite in this fight with betting odds of -125 in her favor against the former champion, Carla Esparza who’ll be stepping in this fight as an underdog with odds of -110 in her favor.

This fight will go for a distance as both these fighters are very technical fighters, they like to take the fight towards the end and they don’t knock the opponents out. But in many instances, they both have displayed their knock-out ability as well so the fight can turn either way.

Predicted Result: Yan Xioanan def Carla Esparza

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