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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight standouts Aljamain Sterling vs. Youssef Zalal will clash TONIGHT April 25, 2026 inside Meta Apex for UFC Vegas 116 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Through the first eight fights of her UFC career, Edwards was a .500 fighter who had missed weight for a pair of her wins and seemed destined to be someone who lived on the fringes of the Top 15, showing glimmers of talent while struggling to string together enough wins and strong efforts to really make headway in the bantamweight ranks. Over her last four fights, however, the Panamanian fighter has morphed into a rising star in the 135-pound ranks, earning four straight stoppage wins to climb to No. 11 in the rankings ahead of her crucial showdown with Norma Dumont this weekend in Las Vegas. Yes, she missed weight for the first of those wins, but Edwards has hit the mark in each of her last three appearances, and her performances have been lights-out.
Last year, “La Pantera” earned consecutive first-round stoppage wins over Chelsea Chandler and Priscila Cachoeira, dispatching each on the feet and collecting a bonus for her win over “Zombie Girl.” But the win that really stood out was her 2026 debut this February in Houston, where she controlled the opening round of her rematch against Nora Cornolle before slamming her to the canvas with serious force in the second and locking up the fight-ending rear-naked choke. Two things stand out most in Edwards’ rise up the rankings and current run of success: one is that she’s older, more developed, more experienced as a fighter, which I think we oddly discount at times, while the other is that she’s clearly built an outstanding coach/athlete relationship with Nate Pettit from Xtreme Couture that has helped elevate her game over these last several fights.
Dumont represents a huge step up in competition, as she currently sits at No. 3 in the rankings and is on a six-fight winning streak that includes victories over Germaine de Randamie, Irene Aldana, and Ketlen Vieira. But the Brazilian contender doesn’t mind getting drawn into a scrap, and with the way Edwards has been attacking the opposition during this run, it’s not out of the question that she lands something sharp that presents her with an opportunity to finish. Three fights into his newfound Featherweight career, it feels safe to say Sterling made the right call. “Funkmaster” has won two of three in dominant fashion, and the sole loss was a highly competitive decision defeat to the unbeaten Movsar Evloev. He’s successfully jumped right into the title mix and could well be one impressive performance away from a title shot.
Remember last January when Barcelos handily beat Payton Talbott and everyone was worried about the future of the rising bantamweight star,Yeah, the Brazilian added two more wins to his resume after that decisive win last year, and yet he somehow remains a largely unheralded standout in the bantamweight division ahead of his 2026 debut opposite Montel Jackson this weekend in Las Vegas. The 38-year-old is a prime example of how we only focus on a result in one direction too many times, with his win over Talbott becoming exclusively about the Dana White’s Contender Series grad, and not something that really helped propel Barcelos forward in the division. He followed that win by beating both Cody Garbrandt and Ricky Simon on the scorecards, wins that had previously moved others forward in the rankings, but not Barcelos, and even with Talbott’s subsequent success, that clear win hasn’t come back around as something that stands out for folks, and I just don’t get it.
Match Card:
Prelims –5.00PM ET
- Middleweight Rodolfo Vieira vs. Eric McConico
- Women’s Bantamweight Mayra Bueno Silva vs. Michelle Montague
- Middleweight Jackson McVey vs. Sedriques Dumas
- Bantamweight Jafel Filho vs. Cody Durden
- Lightweight Francis Marshall vs. Lucas Brennan
- Welterweight Max Griffin vs. Victor Valenzuela
- Women’s Strawweight Talita Alencar vs. Julia Polastri
Maincard – 8.00PM ET
- Featherweight Aljamain Sterling vs. Youssef Zalal
- Women’s Bantamweight Norma Dumont vs. Joselyne Edwards
- Lightweight Rafa García vs. Alexander Hernandez
- Bantamweight Davey Grant vs. Adrián Luna Martinetti
- Bantamweight Montel Jackson vs. Raoni Barcelos
- Heavyweight Marcus Buchecha vs. Ryan Spann
EVENT INFO :
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- Location: Meta APEX In Las Vegas, Nevada.
