{"id":41093,"date":"2026-10-16T05:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/70-finisher-Ivan-Gnizditskiy-joins-UFC-despite-missing-DWCS-203246"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:25:04","slug":"7-0-finisher-ivan-gnizditskiy-joins-ufc-despite-missing-dwcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/7-0-finisher-ivan-gnizditskiy-joins-ufc-despite-missing-dwcs\/","title":{"rendered":"7-0 finisher Ivan Gnizditskiy joins UFC despite missing DWCS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ivan
\nGnizditskiy<\/a> has secured an
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> contract despite missing his
\nscheduled appearance on
\nDana White\u2019s Contender Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ivan Gnizditskiy signs UFC deal after visa issues derail
\nContender Series appearance<\/h2>\n

The unbeaten Russian light heavyweight\u2019s manager, Ali Askarov of
\nCrown Sports Management, confirmed the signing to MMA Junkie<\/a>. Gnizditskiy (7-0) is expected to
\nmake his promotional debut in December.<\/p>\n

Gnizditskiy was scheduled to face Nell Ariano<\/a>
\n(6-1) on DWCS Season 10 but withdrew because of visa issues. The
\n30-year-old has since signed directly with the UFC.<\/p>\n

Gnizditskiy has finished all seven of his professional victories,
\nsix by knockout or technical knockout and one by submission. He
\ncompeted twice in One
\nChampionship<\/a> in 2025 before stopping Tursunbek
\nSodikov<\/a> in his most recent bout in March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ivan Gnizditskiy has secured an Ultimate Fighting Championship contract despite missing his scheduled appearance on Dana White\u2019s Contender Series. Ivan Gnizditskiy signs UFC deal after visa issues derail Contender Series appearance The unbeaten Russian light heavyweight\u2019s manager, Ali Askarov of Crown Sports Management, confirmed the signing to MMA Junkie. Gnizditskiy (7-0) is expected to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41093","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\/41093","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=41093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}