UFC Seattle has taken another hit, because one of the core -arranged fights has been moved to a later date.
The Vechtkaart from 22 February is led by a Bantamweight scrap between Henry Cejudo and Song Yadong. It had taken a big impact with the retirement of Dominick Cruz earlier this month, which would be planned to tackle Rob Font before he ended up with an injury.
Now a ranked heavyweight fight has been moved on March 8 for UFC 313, so that the overall quality of the card is brought down.
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Curtis Blaydes vs. UFC -Debutant Deleted from Seattle Fight Night, moved to UFC 313
No. 5 Ranked UFC Heavyweight Curtis Blaydes would accept promotion debut Rizvan Kuniev at the UFC Seattle. Now, as reported by MMA Junkie, Blaydes will have to wait a few weeks for his shot at repayment. 'Razor' was eliminated by Tom Aspinall on UFC 304, and it is do-that while he takes it against newcomer Kuniev.
13-2-1 (1NC) Kuniev is mainly from Eagle FC, but once fought under UFC rival PFL, where he defeated the future PFL heavyweight champion Renan Ferreira by decision. The result was later destroyed because of Kuniev who tested positive on anabolic steroids. Since then Kuniev has appeared on Dana White's Contender Series (DWCS), where he took a knockout from the first round.
Kuniev moisture also in the 2021 Contender Series, where he took a third round finish, but had not granted a contract.
The two MMA losses from Kuniev have come into the hands of MMA veterans Darko StoSic and Justin Willis, of whom the last one retired by Blaydes in 2019.
Updated UFC 313-line-up
With the news that Blaydes-Kuniev is being moved to UFC 313, De Las Vegas PPV now has 11 fights, in the result of a light heavyweight title retirement down between Alex Pereira and Magomed Ankalaev.
The full fight card is as follows, subject to change:
- (C) Alex Pereira vs. #1 Magomed Ankalaev; Light heavyweight title
- #3 Justin Gaethje vs. #6 Dan hooker; Lightweight Co-Main
- #5 Curtis Blaydes vs. (debut) Rizvan Kuniev; Heavyweight
- King Green vs. Mauricio Ruffy; Lightweight
- #13 Bruno Silva vs. #15 Joshua van; Flying weight
- #5 Amanda Lemos vs. #7 Iasmin Lucindo; W. Strawweight
- Mairon Santos vs. Francis Marshall; Featherweight
- Alex Morono vs. Carlos Leal; Good -weight
- Brunno Ferreira vs. Petrosyan poor; Middleweight
- Chris Gutierrez vs. Jean Matsumoto; Bantam weight
- Ozzy Diaz versus (debut) Djorgen Santos; Middleweight
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