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15th September 2016
08:17am BST

The 24-year-old has agreed to step in to the November 12 welterweight bout and face off with Cowboy Cerrone at Madison Square Garden.
Gastelum has won 13 of his 15 UFC fights to date but UFC 205 and a fight with Denver's finest is different gravy altogether. Despite his unanimous decision against Johny Hendricks at UFC 200, the prospect of Cerrone represents a significantly more terrifying threat, with the Muay Thai expert thriving at welterweight, winning his three fights in the division so far - not to mention disposing of a certain Mr Story last month.
And, whilst ESPN's Brett Okamoto confirmed the billing...
https://twitter.com/bokamotoESPN/status/776148929100455936
MMA Junkie unconfirmed it - sort of - by saying that a verbal agreement was reached and nothing was yet official.
It's all going on.
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