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\nTofiq Musayev came up short in his UFC debut. |
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Former The bout was initially reported<\/a> by Leo Guimaraes and later confirmed Musayev endured a rough promotional debut this past June, when he The 23-year-old Sanches will be making his Tofiq Musayev came up short in his UFC debut. | Getty\/UFC Former Rizin Fighting Federation lightweight tournament winner Tofiq Musayev will seek his first Octagon triumph when he faces Samuel Sanches at UFC Fight Night 272. The bout was initially reported by Leo Guimaraes and later confirmed by MMAjunkie.com. UFC Fight Night 272 takes place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36721","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\/36721","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=36721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRizin Fighting Federation<\/a> lightweight tournament winner
\nTofiq
\nMusayev<\/a> will seek his first Octagon triumph when he faces
\nSamuel
\nSanches<\/a> at
\nUFC Fight Night 272<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nby MMAjunkie.com<\/a>. UFC Fight Night 272 takes place
\non April 4 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. A headliner has not been
\nannounced for the event.<\/p>\nA Difficult Debut<\/h2>\n
\nsuffered a first-round submission loss to Myktybek
\nOrolbai<\/a> at UFC Baku in a 165-pound catchweight affair. Musayev
\nnotably won the Rizin lightweight grand prix in 2019, capturing the
\ntournament crown with a victory over Patricky
\nFreire<\/a> at Rizin 20. That marked the conclusion of a 15-fight
\nprofessional winning streak authored by the Azerbaijan native from
\n2015 to 2019. He has gone 3-3 since then.<\/p>\n
\nUFC<\/a> debut after earning a contract with a first-round KO of
\nChasen
\nBlair<\/a> on
\nDana White’s Contender Series<\/a> in September 2025. \u201cThe Prodigy\u201d
\nhas won 11 of his 12 professional outings, finishing nine inside
\nthe distance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"