The UFC returns to New York this week for UFC 208, and the organization has rolled out the “Embedded” treatment for a preview of Saturday’s pay-per-view event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
UFC 208 features the introduction of a new weight class for the promotion. Former women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm (10-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) takes on Germaine de Randamie (7-3 MMA, 3-1 UFC) for the inaugural women’s featherweight title in the main event.
Additionally, legendary former middleweight champion Anderson Silva (33-8 MMA, 16-4 UFC) fights in New York for the first time when he meets Derek Brunson (16-4 MMA, 7-2 UFC) in the co-feature. Plus, Ronaldo Souza (23-4 MMA, 6-1 UFC) takes on Tim Boetsch (20-10 MMA, 11-9 UFC) in another big middleweight battle.
In the fifth episode, de Randamie shows she’s in her element with a snowball fight on the streets of New York. After the open workouts, Holm and light heavyweight Glover Teixeira continue their weight cut together in the sauna and have a conversation in which Holm admits she wasn’t always a gifted boxer. The fighters officially weigh in, and Silva couldn’t be happier now that he can eat.
Check out the full episode above.
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