Face Off! ‘Lionheart’ Stares Down ‘Rocket’ In Vegas!
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to the hurt business this Sat. night (Aug. 29, 2020) with the UFC Vegas 8 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, locked and loaded for UFC APEX facility and headlined by a light heavyweight showdown between Anthony Smith and Aleksandar Rakic.
Before the action gets underway this weekend in “Sin City,” which also features a co-main event between former welterweight champion Robbie Lawler and longtime 170-pound veteran Neil Magny, all 22 fighters came face-to-face for the official weigh-in staredowns.
Watch “Lionheart” eyeball “Rocket” in the embedded video above. Below, “Ruthless” bumps bridges with “The Haitian Sensation.” For complete UFC Vegas 8 weigh-in video and text results — which included two scale fails — click here.
Face-to-face! @Ruthless_RL vs @NeilMagny
➡️ Who do you have tomorrow night? #UFCVegas8 pic.twitter.com/YcDQMHeGJA
— UFC (@ufc) August 28, 2020
Should prove to be a fun night of fights.
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