Welcome to another year in mixed martial arts.
The UFC has turned the calendar page and starts a particularly busy stretch with a Fight Night show at its Las Vegas home base, where strawweights Mackenzie Dern and Amanda Ribas headline a 14-bout show in the rematch of their first get-together from 2019.
Ribas was a unanimous decision winner that night at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. and she arrives to the second bout as the eighth-ranked contender at 115 pounds, two spots behind the sixth-ranked Dern, who's won seven of 11 bouts since and earned a unanimous verdict over Loopy Godínez last summer in Abu Dhabi.