Final Combating Championship (UFC) Bantamweight high contender is competing later this month.
Immediately (Mon., Sept. 30, 2024), Abu Dhabi Excessive Championship (ADXC) introduced through their social media that the presumed subsequent challenger for the UFC Bantamweight championship, Umar Nurmagomedov, will grapple former Bellator Bantamweight champion Eduardo “Dudu” Dantas at ADXC 6 on Oct. 25 inside Mubadala Area in Abu Dhabi. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu match might be held at Featherweight.
Former UFC Bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling competed at ADXC earlier this yr.
Nurmagomedov is staying lively whereas ready for UFC’s name that he is subsequent for Merab Dvalishvili. The undefeated Russian is coming off a five-round demolishing of Cory Sandhagen to earn him a shot on the UFC Bantamweight title – though Dvalishvili does not suppose he is earned it.
Nurmagomedov sits fairly with an 18-0 file and is 6-0 in UFC.
Dantas, 35, was robbed of a UFC contract in 2022 as UFC CEO Dana White wasn’t impressed along with his violent second-round knockout of Jose Alday throughout his Lookin’ For a Struggle present. The Brazilian misplaced his subsequent battle.Dantas is a two-time Bellator champion and went 11-4 within the promotion.
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