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\nMarvin Vettori will be back in action this summer. |
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The UFC The Las Vegas-based promotion on Tuesday confirmed a handful of Other announced pairings, some of which have been previously UFC Baku takes place at National Gymnastics Arena in Baku, A middleweight title challenger in 2021, Vettori will look to snap Naurdiev, who is on his second Magomedov saw a three-bout winning streak come to an end in his Oleksiejczuk, meanwhile, has won three consecutive UFC starts. Most Marvin Vettori will be back in action this summer. | Getty\/UFC The UFC Baku lineup continues to take shape. The Las Vegas-based promotion on Tuesday confirmed a handful of matchups for the event, including a pair of intriguing middleweight tilts: Marvin Vettori vs. Ismail Naurdiev and Abusupiyan Magomedov vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk. Other announced pairings, some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38215","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\/38215","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=38215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBaku<\/a> lineup continues to take shape.<\/p>\n
\nmatchups for the event, including a pair of intriguing middleweight
\ntilts: Marvin
\nVettori<\/a> vs. Ismail
\nNaurdiev<\/a> and Abusupiyan
\nMagomedov<\/a> vs. Michal
\nOleksiejczuk<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nreported include: Nazim
\nSadykhov<\/a> vs. Matheus
\nCamilo<\/a> at lightweight; Asu
\nAlmabayev<\/a> vs. Charles
\nJohnson<\/a> at flyweight and Nursulton
\nRuziboev<\/a> vs. Andrey
\nPulyaev<\/a> at middleweight.<\/p>\n
\nAzerbaijan, on June 27 and is headlined by a lightweight clash
\npitting Rafael
\nFiziev<\/a> against Manuel
\nTorres<\/a>. The card will air in its entirety on Paramount+.<\/p>\nMiddleweight Mania<\/h2>\n
\na four-bout losing streak when he squares off against Naurdiev.
\n\u201cThe Italian Dream\u201d went 0-3 in 2025 alone, dropping unanimous
\ndecisions to the likes of Roman
\nDolidze<\/a>, Brendan
\nAllen<\/a> and Brunno
\nFerreira<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nUFC<\/a> stint, has won two of his last three Octagon appearances.
\nMost recently, the 29-year-old Austrian scored a first-round
\nknockout of Ryan Loder<\/a>
\nat UFC Qatar this past November.<\/p>\n
\nlast outing, when he suffered a second-round submission defeat to
\nJoe
\nPyfer<\/a> at UFC 320 this past October. Prior to that, \u201cAbus\u201d had
\nearned successive triumphs against Warlley
\nAlves<\/a>, Ferreira and Michel
\nPereira<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nrecently, the Pole outpointed Marc-Andre
\nBarriault<\/a> at UFC Fight Night 266 on Feb. 7. His current run
\nalso includes first-round stoppages of Gerald
\nMeerschaert<\/a> and Sedriques
\nDumas<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"