UFC is returning to the Garden State with a pair of incredible championship bouts. Men’s bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili will defend his crown against former titleholder Sean O’Malley in a title rematch while women’s bantamweight champion Julianna Pena will take on former PFL champion Kayla Harrison, UFC CEO Dana White announced on Tuesday. The event will take place on June 7 at the Prudential Center in New, Jersey.
UFC teased a major announcement earlier in the day, leading to speculation as to what it could be with recent comments suggesting it could be a heavyweight unification between champion Jon Jones and interim titleholder Tom Aspinall, or the potential superfight matchup between lightweight king Islam Makhachev and former featherweight champ Ilia Topuria. Instead, it was the announcement of the bantamweight rematch after Dvalishvili and O’Malley battled it out over five rounds at Noche UFC last September.
Dvalishvili, 34, enters on a 12-fight win streak and fresh off arguably the best win of his career against Umar…
