Paige VanZant is getting her want.
The UFC and BKFC veteran is about to compete within the first ever ladies’s title bout in Energy Slap historical past when she returns to motion on June 27 throughout Worldwide Battle Week in Las Vegas.
VanZant faces Mikael-Michelle Brown in a rematch to crown the first-ever Energy Slap ladies’s flyweight champion with the cardboard going down on the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas simply someday earlier than UFC 317 happen at T-Cell Area.
Of their first encounter, VanZant gained in lopsided trend with 30-27 scorecards throughout the board. Afterwards, she referred to as for a Energy Slap title shot.
“Hey Dana [White], the place’s that [125-pound] belt, child?” VanZant shouted after her win. “Put me on the subsequent card. Let’s get some ladies’s belts. We’re right here to remain. We’re right here to knock bitches out and slap folks all day.”
It was a little bit of a shock when VanZant first signed with Energy Slap given her fight sports activities historical past competing in each the UFC after which transitioning into bare-knuckle preventing with BKFC. She gained her first Energy Slap match, however then went to a attract her second look on account of an unlawful blow.
VanZant then picked up a win in her third match again in March, which is the place she referred to as for a future title bout.
Now, the 31-year-old will get her probability so as to add a championship to her résumé with the Energy Slap title bout booked for June.
