UFC 274 now has its co-main event.
Women’s strawweight champion Rose Namajunas will defend her title against Carla Esparza in the co-main at the Footprint Center on May 7 in Phoenix, Arizona, Sports Illustrated has learned.
This will be a five-round title bout, marking Namajunas’s second title defense in her second reign as champ. Namajunas (11–4) defeated Zhang Weili last November at Madison Square Garden at UFC 268, her second consecutive victory against Weili.
The fight at 274 is a rematch from December 2014, which Esparza (18–6) won by submission to crown herself the inaugural UFC women’s strawweight champion.