CHICAGO – For the first time this week, the fighters on the UFC 238 card got face to face Thursday.
All the athletes fighting in the UFC’s return to “The Windy City” squared off at a media day for the card at United Center. The same venue hosts Saturday’s event, which has a main card on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+/UFC Fight Pass.
In the co-main event, the mind games continued between women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko (16-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and Jessica Eye (14-6 MMA, 4-5 UFC), who showed up wearing what appeared to be a bulletproof vest with “BULLETPROOF” emblazoned on the front and “EVIL” on the back.
“Evil,” of course, is Eye’s own nickname. The “bulletproof” reference, however, is a clear message being sent to Shevchenko, who goes by the nickname “Bullet” for her love of guns. Eye is a historically massive underdog heading into the title fight, and she knows it. But she doesn’t care.
Check out the faceoff for the co-main event in the video above, as well as the rest of the fights below.
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
- Henry Cejudo vs. Marlon Moraes – for vacant bantamweight title
- Champ Valentina Shevchenko vs. Jessica Eye – for women’s flyweight title
- Donald Cerrone vs. Tony Ferguson
- Jimmie Rivera vs. Petr Yan
- Blagoy Ivanov vs. Tai Tuivasa
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, 8 p.m. ET)
- Nina Ansaroff vs. Tatiana Suarez
- Pedro Munhoz vs. Aljamain Sterling
- Alexa Grasso vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
- Calvin Kattar vs. Ricardo Lamas
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6:15 p.m. ET)
- Angela Hill vs. Yan Xiaonan
- Bevon Lewis vs. Darren Stewart
- Grigory Popov vs. Eddie Wineland
- Katlyn Chookagian vs. Joanne Calderwood
For more on UFC 238, visit the UFC Rumors section of the site.
