The UFC plans on keeping Claudia Gadelha vs. Yan Xiaonan on despite Gadelha’s knee injury, moving the strawweight bout from Sept. 26 to Nov. 7, people with knowledge of the booking told MMA Fighting following a report from Combate.
Gadelha suffered a left knee injury and left New Jersey to Las Vegas to rehab at the UFC Performance Institute. Contracts are yet to be signed, sources said.
Yan (12-1, 1 NC) is coming off the biggest wins of her MMA career, a pair of decisions over longtime UFC veterans Karolina Kowalkiewicz and Angela Hill.