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\nThree-time Octagon veteran Lone’er Kavanagh will be thrown into
\nthe fire at UFC Mexico City. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n
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It appears that Brandon Moreno was originally slated to face Asu There is a significant gap in experience between the two Moreno had a two-bout winning streak snapped in his last outing, Kavanagh, meanwhile, earned a UFC contract with a first-round Kavanagh was originally expected to face Bruno Silva<\/a> Three-time Octagon veteran Lone’er Kavanagh will be thrown into the fire at UFC Mexico City. | Getty\/UFC It appears that Brandon Moreno will remain in the UFC Mexico City main event after all. Moreno was originally slated to face Asu Almabayev on Feb. 28 in Mexico City before his opponent withdrew from the flyweight bout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMoreno<\/a> will remain in the
\nUFC Mexico City<\/a> main event after all.<\/p>\n
\nAlmabayev<\/a> on Feb. 28 in Mexico City before his opponent
\nwithdrew from the flyweight bout due to an arm injury. As a result,
\nthe former 125-pound king will now face Lone’er
\nKavanagh<\/a> in the new UFC Fight Night 268 headliner at Arena CDMX
\nin Mexico City. The
\nUFC<\/a> announced the new pairing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\ncombatants. Moreno is a two-time UFC flyweight champion with 19
\nOctagon appearances to his credit, while Kavanagh is 2-1 during his
\nbrief tenure within the Las Vegas-based promotion.<\/p>\n
\nwhen he suffered a secondp-round technical knockout loss to
\nTatsuro
\nTaira<\/a> at UFC 325 this past December. Prior to that the two-time
\nflyweight king had earned consecutive five-round verdicts over
\nAmir
\nAlbazi<\/a> and Steve
\nErceg<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nknockout of An Tuan Ho<\/a>
\non
\nDana White’s Contender Series<\/a> in August 2024. He kicked off his
\nOctagon tenure with unanimous decision triumphs over Jose Ochoa<\/a>
\nand Felipe
\ndos Santos<\/a> before suffering a second-round KO defeat against
\nCharles
\nJohnson<\/a> at
\nUFC Fight Night 269<\/a> this past August.<\/p>\nUFC Fight Night 269 Update<\/h2>\n
\nin a flyweight contest at
\nUFC Fight Night 269<\/a> on March 14 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
\nWith the 26-year-old Brit shifting to Mexico City, former opponent
\nJohnson will step in and face Silva at the event. Both fighters
\nconfirmed the booking following an initial report<\/a> from Laerte Viana. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"