UFC Fight Night 84 Latest News, Fight Preview: Hector Lombard vs. Neil Magny Added as Co-Main Event
At last, Hector Lombard is back in action.
The welterweight will be coming off a long layoff due to a suspension and will fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship's Fight Night 84 in Australia on March 20. Lombard is scheduled to meet Neil Magny and their fight will be featured as the co-main event of the evening.
The addition of Lombard versus Magny came in as a total surprise to Lombard himself because he has been a constant fixture in rumors over a fight against former title contender Rory MacDonald. Now it looks like that rumor has been quashed with this new development, which by the way was made official by the UFC last Monday.
Lombard is of Cuban and Australian descent that was suspended for a year by the UFC after testing positive for a banned substance after his last fight in January in UFC 182, where he initially won by decision, but was later overturned and made a no contest because he tested positive for a kind of anabolic steroid. His sentence was consummated last Jan. 3 and is now eligible to fight.
A victory against Magny should be enough to put him back into the fold of the best welterweights in mixed martial arts. But Magny himself is out to prove something, too, after winning an exciting affair with former champion Kelvin Gastelum just two months ago.
The fight will be in the 170-pound division and will be held at the Brisbane Entertainment Center. The main event will feature two heavyweights hoping to once again climb the rankings in the persons of Frank Mir and Mark Hunt.
Aside from the Lombard-Magny and Mir-Hunt matchup, the UFC also confirmed three other pairings for the same event. This includes a light heavyweight matchup between James Te Huna and Steve Bosse, welterweights Alan Jouban versus Brendan O'Reilly, and Daniel Kelly versus Antonio Carlos, Jr. in the middleweight division.
