Friday evening in New York City, three sets of champions and challengers made their way onto the stage inside The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden to promote next month’s colossal UFC 245 pay-per-view.
On December 14 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, each of the three tandems will step into the Octagon with championship gold hanging in the balance, and all three fights promise to be competitive affairs between titleholders and the top challengers in their respective divisions, but on Friday evening in New York City, one bout took center stage.
While women’s double champ Amanda Nunes and featherweight champion Max Holloway exchanged brief pleasantries with the opponents they’ll face next month, Germaine de Randamie and Alex Volkanovski, respectively, the combatants in the evening’s main event for the UFC welterweight title used their time to stoke the fires of a rivalry that has been smoldering for a number of months now.