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Adrade will confront Cynthia Calvillo in a featured 125-pound attraction at UFC 266 on Sept. 25 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The 5-foot-2 Parana Vale Tudo star has compiled a 12-7 mark since she joined the Dana White-fronted promotion a little more than eight years ago—a run that includes brutal stoppage victories over Jessica Penne, Karolina Kowalkiewicz, Rose Namajunas and Katlyn Chookagian. Andrade last competed at UFC 261 in April, when she succumbed to a volley of second-round elbows from Valentina Shevchenko in failed bid to dethrone the reigning women’s flyweight champion. Nevertheless, Andrade remains a pivotal player in the top-heavy division moving forward.
Others in MMA celebrating a birthday during the month of September:
SEPT. 1
Raphael Davis, 45Timothy Woods, 45
Tim Kennedy, 42
Mike Pierce, 41
Nick Catone, 40
Mikhail Malyutin, 40
D.J. Linderman, 38
Henrique da Silva , 32
Carl Seumanutafa, 32
Fatkhidin Sobirov, 28
SEPT. 2
Steve Gable, 45Jeff Curran, 44
Shamil Abdurakhimov, 40
Alessio Sakara, 40
Jake Rosholt, 39
Sean O'Connell, 38
Anthony Durnell, 37
Enrique Marin, 35
Cathal Pendred, 34
Alejandro Perez, 32
SEPT. 3
Hidehiko Yoshida, 52Leo Sylvest, 48
Alexandru Lungu, 47
Brian Cobb, 41
Rene Nazare, 39
Ousmane Thomas Diagne, 38
Daniel Jolly, 37
Dominick Cruz, 36
Rob Morrow, 36
Lorenz Larkin, 35
SEPT. 4
Jason David Frank, 48Bao Quach, 42
Katy Collins, 34
Isabela de Padua, 30
Kevin Lee, 29
Humberto Bandenay, 27
Kyra Batara, 27
Stanislav Nanaev, 27
Nicolae Negumereanu, 27
Youssef Zalal, 25
SEPT. 5
Emmanuel Yarborough, 1960-2015Tim Hague, 1983-2017
James Brasco, 49
Rob MacDonald, 43
Gray Maynard, 42
Jacob Volkmann, 41
Francis Ngannou, 35
Raquel Pennington, 33
Genah Fabian, 32
Antun Racic, 31
SEPT. 6
Antonio Graceffo, 54Masatoshi Abe, 45
Thales Leites, 40
Callan Potter, 37
Lynn Alvarez, 36
Handerson Martins, 36
Tarec Saffiedine, 35
Jared Gordon, 32
Michael Stack, 27
SEPT. 7
Patrick Williams, 40Alan Carlos, 38
Ian Loveland, 38
Pedro Munhoz, 35
Yancy Medeiros, 34
Kevin Aguilar, 33
Joey Elzea, 32
Reinier de Ridder, 31
Artem Frolov, 30
Larissa Pacheco, 27
SEPT. 8
John Halverson, 49Rubens Xavier, 47
Mike Thomas Brown, 46
Chris Tuchscherer, 46
Yasuhiro Urushitani, 45
Kurt Holobaugh, 35
Christian Morecraft, 35
Chris Dempsey, 34
Maryna Moroz, 30
Logan Storley, 29
SEPT. 9
Don Richards, 47Ailton Barbosa, 45
Roger Narvaez, 38
Harris Sarmiento, 38
Jose Aldo, 35
Bobby Green, 35
Kyung Ho Kang, 34
Dong Hyun Ma, 33
Kristina Williams, 32
Yaroslav Amosov, 28
SEPT. 10
Masahiko Kimura, 1917-1993Sanae Kikuta, 50
Roman Zentsov, 48
Mirko Filipovic, 47
Joe Doerksen, 44
Naoya Uematsu, 43
Cully Butterfield, 32
Mark Martin, 28
Rhys McKee, 26
Jakub Wiklacz, 25
SEPT. 11
Dennis Reed, 54Chance Farrar, 46
Johnny Sampaio, 46
Andre Winner, 40
Eric Bedard, 37
Cody Gibson, 34
Te Edwards, 31
Allan Nascimento, 30
Robert Hale, 29
Jia Wen Ma, 25
SEPT. 12
Yuki Sasaki, 45James Irvin, 43
Ray Steinbeiss, 42
Stanislav Nedkov, 40
Mario Rinaldi, 39
Johny Hendricks, 38
Junior dos Santos, 37
Paul Kelly, 37
Rani Yahya, 37
Garry Tonon, 30
SEPT. 13
Yuri Vaulin, 58Igor Almeida, 42
Marcus Sursa, 39
Ronald LeBreton Jr., 36
Andy Uhrich, 36
Juan Archuleta, 34
Zach Fears, 33
Tommy Espinosa, 29
Elias Garcia, 29
Chase Hooper, 22
SEPT. 14
Antonio Silva, 42Chris Lozano, 39
Adrian Miles, 38
Dwight Grant, 37
Alexey Stoyan, 37
Mauro Chaulet, 33
Alan Omer, 33
Yuki Motoya, 32
Jose Alday, 30
Gaston Bolanos, 29
SEPT. 15
John Marsh, 51Rick Hawn, 42
Fernando Gonzalez, 38
Kaitlin Young, 36
Jesse Gross, 34
Mike Wilkinson, 34
Horacio Gutierrez, 31
Mike Perry, 30
Marcelo Golm, 29
Terrance McKinney, 27
SEPT. 16
Roberto Traven, 53Nobutatsu Suzuki, 44
Pablo Garza, 38
Brandon Halsey, 35
Lucas Montoya, 35
Darius Estell, 33
Ariel Beck, 31
Luis Vargas, 30
Jeremy Kennedy, 29
Wei Xie, 25
SEPT. 17
Michael Guymon, 47Denis Kang, 44
Scott Jorgensen, 39
Hisaki Kato, 39
Sultan Aliev, 37
Sean Holden, 37
Hector Urbina, 34
Loik Radzhabov, 31
Reece McLaren, 30
Tyson Pedro, 30
SEPT. 18
Yuji Hisamatsu, 50Ryuta Sakurai, 50
Mike Pyle, 46
Abel Trujillo, 38
Felice Herrig, 37
Ashkan Mokhtarian, 36
Tyra Parker, 32
Aren Akopyan, 28
Aleksander Podmarev, 27
Tiani Valle, 27
SEPT. 19
Yoshihiro Takayama, 55Mark Weir, 54
Heather Clark, 41
Jeremy Jackson, 39
Leandro Issa, 38
Matt Wiman, 38
Lewis Gonzalez, 34
Volkan Oezdemir, 32
Sinjen Smith, 29
Claire Guthrie, 26
SEPT. 20
Ryan Jensen, 44Alex Karalexis, 44
Eric Schafer, 44
Quinn Mulhern, 37
Sarah Kaufman, 36
Khabib Nurmagomedov, 33
Aalon Cruz, 32
George Garcia, 31
Marvin Vettori, 28
Riku Yoshida, 21
SEPT. 21
Ronald Jhun, 51Mario Miranda, 43
Josh Thomson, 43
Gael Grimaud, 42
Bianca Daimoni, 35
Andrei Koshkin, 31
Martin Bravo, 28
Bryan Battle, 27
Ty Gwerder, 27
Devon Brock, 26
SEPT. 22
Bob Sapp, 48Forrest Petz, 46
Takanori Gomi, 43
Fredy Serrano, 42
Shamar Bailey, 39
Bruno Menezes, 36
Chuck O'Neil, 36
Mike de la Torre, 35
Elias Silverio, 35
Corey Anderson, 32
SEPT. 23
Shane del Rosario, 1983-2013Eugene Jackson, 55
Jason Lambert, 44
Makoto Maeda, 44
Maro Perak, 39
Joe Riggs, 39
Mark O. Madsen, 37
Kyle Driscoll, 28
Aaron Pico, 25
Imran Zhulagov, 24
SEPT. 24
Cristian Binda, 44Brad Pickett, 43
Sara McMann, 41
Brian Stann, 41
Kris McCray, 40
Roxanne Modafferi, 39
Jose Andres Cortes, 37
Dan Charles, 36
Adam McDonough, 36
Chris Horodecki, 34
SEPT. 25
Todd Gouwenberg, 44Olavo Belo, 42
Rashad Evans, 42
Allan Weickert, 40
Phil Davis, 37
Jake O'Brien, 37
Chris Daukaus, 32
Rodolfo Vieira, 32
Jessica Andrade, 30
Aleksa Camur, 26
SEPT. 26
Shinobu Aoyama, 48David Branch, 40
Roger Gracie, 40
Hugo Viana, 39
Martin Zawada, 38
John Dodson, 37
Ross Pearson, 37
Santiago Ponzinibbio, 35
Dileno Lopes, 34
Tom Breese, 30
SEPT. 27
Shannon Ritch, 51Thiago Jambo Goncalves, 41
Karol Bedorf, 38
Sasa Mitrovic, 36
Josh Bacallao, 33
Herman Terrado, 32
Zebaztian Kadestam, 31
Islam Makhachev, 30
Karl Albrektsson, 28
Max Rohskopf, 27
SEPT. 28
Mario Sperry, 55Fedor Emelianenko, 45
Din Thomas, 45
Jeremy Mahon, 42
Eduardo Felipe, 41
Sam Morgan, 40
Justin Ledet, 33
Anthony Gutierrez, 31
Tony Gravely, 30
Janay Harding, 27
SEPT. 29
Jason Riley, 41James Te Huna, 40
Andre Galvao, 39
Che Mills, 39
Eric Spicely, 35
Alexander Volkanovski, 33
Evgeny Bondar, 32
Niko Price, 32
Collin Huckbody, 27
Joselyne Edwards, 26
SEPT. 30
Herb Dean, 51Yves Edwards, 46
Latoya Walker, 42
Damacio Page, 39
Scott Holtzman, 38
Neal Ewing, 36
Chris Wade, 34
Natan Levy, 30
Brad Riddell, 30
Diego Silva, 28