Today at the press conference devoted to last UFC 168 tournament, the following rival of domestic easily weight of Habib Nurmagomedov was "lit". Despite the absence of the formal announcement, on the poster of the UFC 170 tournament shown to journalists the duel of "Eagle" against the former champion of Strikefirce Gilbert Melendes appeared. Later official representatives of promotion confirmed a match to reporters of a portal of MMAFighting.com.

Event  the State of Nevada, the USA will take place on February 22 on the Mandalay Bay Events Center arena in Las Vegas. The fight announced today for a female title in the easiest weight between the champion Rhonda Rosie and the pretender Sara Makmann (instead of Kormye's fight against Evans who became now to-meyn iventy) becomes the main event of evening.

Nurmagomedov (21-0) won in UFC five duels in a row, having dealt with Kamal Shalorus, Gleyson Tibau, Tiago Tavares, Abel Trujillo and Pet Hili. Spotless record, outstanding combative skills and ability to do show (together with the well-known papakha) allowed Habib to find quickly popularity among fans and to achieve recognition from the promotion management and consequently and to receive the following fight with the top rival.

Melendes (22-3) who is No. 2 in a rating of the best easily scales of a planet according to Sherdog, in the last fight won a victory the unanimous decision of judges over Diego Sanchez. The spectacular duel appeared the real bloody cabin and one of the main applicants for ranks of "Fight of year". Before passed into UFC from Strikeforce Gilbert battled for a title to the champion Benson Henderson of that time, but I conceded to the last on points.