UFC Manila Fight Card Update: Three More Fights

ZAGREB, CROATIA - APRIL 10: Derrick Lewis celebrates his knock out victory over Gabriel Gonzaga in their heavyweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at the Arena Zagreb on April 10, 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia. (Photo by Srdjan Stevanovic/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

UFC Manila has added three fights to its October card, most notably, a heavyweight bout between Derrick Lewis and Marcin Tybura.

Also added to UFC Manila was a women's strawweight bout between Danielle Taylor and Seo Hee Ham, and a featherweight bout between Mizuto Hirota. Both fights were officially announced by the promotion.

Derrick Lewis took announcing his bout into his own hands on Instagram, and it's a great fight. "The Black Beast" is a knockout artist through and through, but earned a decision victory for the first time in his 20-fight career against Roy Nelson. In between the many takedowns of Nelson, Lewis battered Nelson on the feet on his way to a close split decision.

Lewis was not happy with the performance, and wanted a rematch with Nelson. He will face dangerous up-and-comer Marcin Tybura instead. Tybura earned his first Octagon victory in Salt Lake City last month with a brutal head kick against Viktor Pesta.

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Some may say this is a step down in competition for Lewis, considering he is ranked 10th and just beat the 11th ranked heavyweight. However, the entirety of the top-10 in the heavyweight division is either injured, booked, or Mark Hunt (whose UFC career seems to have come to a bitter end). This is a fun striking matchup that fans will get to sit back and enjoy while heavyweight sorts itself out.

The strawweight fight that was announced is also a fun striker-based matchup. Danielle Taylor is a powerful five-foot tall striker with three of her seven wins coming via knockout. She lost a pretty bland fight against Maryna Moroz in Salt Lake City earlier this month (only 34 strikes were landed total in 15 minutes).