2024-04-05 19:30:41
Blanchfield and Firo will fight for challenger status, Buckley will try to break into the top 15 welterweights
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The Atlantic City tournament will take place on March 31st. Erin Blanchfield and Manon Firo will meet in the main event of the evening
Preliminary card fights
1. Angel Pacheco will fight Caolan Loughran at bantamweight
2. Middleweight Andre Petrovski will face Jacob Malkoun
3. Melissa Gatto will fight Victoria Dudakova in the women’s flyweight division
4. For Aslan will fight in the light heavyweight division with Anton Turkal
5. Connor Matthews will face Dennis Bouzukia in the featherweight division
5. Julio Arce will fight Herbert Burns at featherweight
6. Virna Yandiroba will fight Lupita Godinez in the women’s strawweight division
7. Nate Landwehr will fight Jamal Emmers in the featherweight division
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With the main thing
The main card will open with a welterweight bout between Chidi Njokuani and Reece McKee. The fighters are approaching head-to-head confrontation after defeats in previous meetings.
Reece only fought one fight in the promotion and lost a unanimous decision to Enju Lusa in his debut. It is worth noting that the Irishman has very good dimensions for the welterweight category.
His height is 188 cm and his arm span is 198 cm. But this time he will have to face an equally large opponent. Chidi previously competed in the middle division.
He started the promotion with two victories in a row, but then a series of failures began. Suddenly his win streak changed to 3 losses in a row. Now Njokuani is on the verge of being eliminated from the UFC and in this fight he only needs a victory.
Bill Algeo and Kyle Nelson will be next in the octagon at featherweight. Both fighters are strong middle peasants in this division. Bill has only one defeat and 4 wins in his last 5 fights.
The statistics are not bad, but the level of opposition was far from the highest. His opponent’s numbers for the previous 5 fights are slightly worse. Nelson has 2 wins, 2 losses and a draw.
In such a confrontation it is difficult to give anyone an advantage. These are rivals of equal class and have been competing in the promotion for a long time. Stylistically, both Algeo and Nelson are all-rounders.
They can do a little bit of everything, but no one has a clear strong point. In such a fight you can expect anything. It is possible that the outcome of their confrontation will even end in a split decision.
In the middle weight there will be a fight between Nursulton Ruziboev and Cedric Dumas. The guys won victories in previous fights. Ruziboev recently made his debut in the UFC, and then he knocked out Bruno Ferreira in the first round.
In general, the fighter from Uzbekistan is in very good shape. He is approaching this meeting on a streak of nine early victories in a row. Dumas does not have such a win streak, but he has more fights in the UFC.
In his debut, he lost by submission to Josh Fremd, but then won 2 wins by decision over Cody Brundage and Abu Aizatar. Stylistically, the American differs from his upcoming opponent, as he is a pronounced fighter.
But Nursulton, as an experienced striker, will look for his chances in the standing position. And for him it is better not to bring this fight to the third round, because Cedric is excellent at keeping his opponents on the ground and exhausting them.
Another fight on the main card will take place in the middle weight category. This time Bruno Silva will fight former division champion Chris Weidman. The Brazilian has 4 defeats in his last 5 fights.
Silva comes into this fight after losing a unanimous decision to Shara Bullet. Weidman has similar statistics. In his last fight, he met with Brad Tavares, to whom he lost on points.
Since 2015, the ex-champion’s career has gone downhill. During these 9 years, Weidman had too many injuries. They clearly affected all of Chris’s failures in the Octagon. Now Weidman is already 39, and looking at his statistics since 2015, there is a suspicion that he is no longer at the UFC level.
Blanchfield and Buckley are one step away from their cherished goal
In the co-main event of the evening, the 11th ranked number Vicente Luque and Joaquin Buckley will meet in the welterweight division. Initially, Sean Brady, who occupies the eighth position on the roster, was supposed to take part in this fight.
However, a month before the start of the tournament, he was injured and Buckley volunteered in his place. Joaquin started his journey in the UFC as a middleweight, but he failed to get into the top 15 in that category. Having gone down one division, he immediately won 2 victories.
Until 2021, Luecke was considered one of the potential candidates for getting into the top 5. The fighter was on a streak of five victories in a row, but as soon as the level of opposition was raised, setbacks immediately began.
He lost the rematch to Belal Muhammad on points, and then was knocked out by Geoff Neal. He managed to close one of the setbacks with a victory in a fight with veteran Rafael Dos Santos.
But this time the opponent is much more serious. Buckley is far from the most technical fighter, but he has unconventional technique and incredible physical power. If he underestimates his opponent, Luque risks losing by knockout again.
In the main event of the evening, the second and third ranked numbers Erin Blanchfield and Manon Firo will meet in the women’s flyweight division. The status of a title contender will be at stake in this confrontation.
Both girls had never previously suffered a single defeat in the UFC and had won 6 victories in a row. It is not surprising that they are potential candidates for the belt. Moreover, each of them has victories over big names.
In her last fight, Firo defeated former strawweight champion Rose Namajunas by unanimous decision. Blanchfield similarly defeated recent title challenger at the weight, Tayla Santos.
Manon is a classic striker with good boxing technique. Erin is a strong fighter. However, she doesn’t miss too much in stand-up. And she managed to pull all her previous rivals to the canvas and control them.
Perhaps Manon is a little better in her hands than her opponent. But she had never faced a fighter of such a high level. The main question is whether Firo will be able to hold off Blanchfield’s onslaught on the ground. If not, then Erin will take this fight unilaterally.
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