The women’s bantamweight title fight between Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes has been promoted to the main event slot at UFC 200 and will headline the historic event on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Brock Lesnar and Mark Hunt will be the co-main event, and the newly added fight between Daniel Cormier and Anderson Silva will be third on the card.
Tate and Nunes take the marquee spot less than a day after Dana White announced that Lesnar vs. Hunt would be the new main event. According to White, after examining the card, the UFC decided that the women’s title fight deserved to be in the headline spot.
“Miesha is the woman who beat the woman who beat the woman. She’s the champ,” White said. “What she accomplished a few fights ago, you can’t disrespect that. She should be the main event. She deserves that.”
Normally, a title fight will always headline a UFC card over a non-title fight, and after analyzing the hectic situation created after the removal of Jon Jones from the card, White decided to rearrange the card and promote the women’s bantamweight title fight to the main event.
The updated full main card order below:
MAIN EVENT: Miesha Tate vs. Amanda Nunes
CO-MAIN EVENT: Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Hunt
Daniel Cormier vs. Anderson Silva
Frankie Edgar vs. Jose Aldo (interim featherweight title fight)
Cain Velasquez vs. Travis Browne