There are a number of up-and-coming talents and promising new arrivals set to step into the Octagon this weekend. Here’s a closer look at three of those competitors. This is On the Rise: Ottawa Edition.
Three years after venturing to the Canadian capital for the first time, the Octagon returns to Ottawa this weekend with a 12-fight card headlined by a pivotal lightweight matchup between two all-action, crowd favorites — Al Iaquinta and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone.
Cerrone is one of only two fighters on this weekend’s fight card to have competed the first time the UFC touched down on the banks of the Ottawa River, having picked up a third-round stoppage win over Patrick Cote in the co-main event of that initial show, while Elias Theodorou outworked Sam Alvey the first time through the city and he takes on Derek Brunson in the penultimate pairing this time around.