Dating back to 2006, the UFC has circled the weekends surrounding Independence Day as among the most important of its annual calendar. Since then, the group of names that has headlined its pay-per-views during that time of year include a Who's Who of UFC greats and legends: Brock Lesnar, Anderson Silva, Conor McGregor, Tito Ortiz and Quinton Jackson, just to name a few.
Among that group, Amanda Nunes' name looks somewhat out of place. Yet for the second year in a row, she will headline the key weekend.
Nunes, the woman who battered Miesha Tate at last year's Fourth of July weekend event and who retired Ronda Rousey with a one-sided whipping last December, gets the call to top-line the card once again.