Depending on how the match plays out, a spot in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship’s logjammed lightweight
division’s rankings may be on the line.
Heavy first broke the news on Thursday that
UFC 329 would be getting a striker’s delight at 155 pounds. Per
the initial report, and subsequently confirmed by one of the
fighters on his Instagram Stories page,
King
Green (35-17-1, 1 NC) will be throwing down with Terrance
McKinney (18-8) on July 11. They will be colliding inside of
the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, likely serving as a high-billed
prelim.
Green currently rides a three-fight win streak, his longest since
claiming a trio of decisions over Clay Guida,
Lando
Vannata and Alan
Patrick in 2020. In this run, he beat Lance
Gibson Jr., knocked out Daniel
Zellhuber and tapped Jeremy
Stephens within the last seven months. The grizzled veteran
will be entering into his 31st with the promotion, having joined
the roughly two dozen names who completed at least 30 UFC bouts led
by Jim
Miller’s 47.
Far less experience but arguably more dangerous, the Washington
native McKinney has yet to go to a decision after 26 pro outings.
In the UFC thus far, he has fought a mere 13 times, but no match
has ever lasted more than 7:17. While Green has won his last three,
McKinney can celebrate finish victories in three of his last four
walks to the cage. In March, he punted Kyle Nelson
in 24 seconds to get back on the winning track.
UFC 329 Lineup:
Conor
McGregor vs. Max
Holloway – welterweight
Benoit St.
Denis vs. Paddy
Pimblett – lightweight
Cory
Sandhagen vs. Mario
Bautista – bantamweight
Brandon
Royval vs. Lone’er
Kavanagh – flyweight
Gable
Steveson vs. Elisha
Ellison – heavyweight
Robert
Whittaker vs. Nikita
Krylov – light heavyweight
King
Green vs. Terrance
McKinney – lightweight
Luke
Riley vs. Kai Kamaka
III – featherweight
Cesar
Almeida vs. Damian
Pinas – middleweight
Cody
Garbrandt vs. Adrian
Yanez – bantamweight
Tracy
Cortez vs. Cong Wang –
women’s flyweight
Farid
Basharat vs. Ethyn Ewing
– bantamweight
Cody
Durden vs. Ode
Osbourne – flyweight
Ryan
Gandra vs. Zachary
Reese – middleweightRead More
