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Ronda Rousey vs. Holly Holm to be main fight of UFC 193 in Australia on Nov. 14

Ronda Rousey vs. Holly Holm to be main fight of UFC 193 in Australia on Nov. 14 - UFC champion Ronda Rousey and her latest challenger Holly Holm will face each other in the main fight of UFC 193 in Australia on November 14, where Rousey will defend her title.

UFC president Dana White on Friday announced the switch Friday on SportsCenter, stressing that Rousey-Holm will set the all-time attendance record for an MMA event.

The pay-per-view event actually will take place on November 15 in Australia to maintain the usual Saturday evening start time in the U.S. It will mark the UFC's first visit to Melbourne and will take place at Etihad Stadium, which can sit near 55,000 people.

The title fight was originally scheduled to headline UFC 195 in Las Vegas. A previously announced welterweight title fight between Robbie Lawler (26-10) and Carlos Condit (30-8) has been removed from the card after Lawler picked up a thumb injury.

Rousey (12-0) is seeking her seventh consecutive title defense. "Obviously Ronda Rousey was huge for us down in Brazil, she was well received there," White said. "It did very well on pay-per-view here in the United States, and she's obviously a huge superstar for us. Australia is an important market for us, so we're going to bring her out there in our first real big stadium show, and we know she'll break the record."

Rousey has won three of her last fights via knockout. She set the UFC record for fastest finish in a title fight February 28 by submitting Cat Zingano in just 14 seconds.

On the other hand, Holm (9-0), a former world boxing champion, transitioned to MMA full time in 2013. She trains out of Jackson-Winkeljohn MMA in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is 2-0 record in the UFC.

"The scary thing about Ronda Rousey is: As good as she is, she's still getting better," White said. "She's just getting into her prime now, and obviously people are in awe of her talent."