UFC Fight Night 28, the UFC’s second engagement for the new Fox Sports 1 network, just received some serious bench depth in the form of two new fights. On paper, both fights appear to be crowd-pleasers.
Brazilian website Combate.com (via Sherdog) first reported the news that Francisco Trinaldo will take on Piotr Hallmann and Kenny Robertson will face Joao Zeferino at UFC Fight Night 28, scheduled to take place Sept. 4 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Lightweight Trinaldo (13-2, 2-0 UFC) will be a fine welcome for a respected prospect in Hallmann (13-1). Trinaldo impressed observers when he mowed through C.J. Keith and then Mike Rio, both by submission and both in 2013.
Hallmann has similar submission acumen; if a striking match breaks out, both men should be well equipped, with 12 T/KO wins between them. Poland native Hallmann has amassed a nine-fight winning streak, though the streak has come at the expense of generally lesser fighters and promotions.
Welterweight Robertson (12-3, 1-3 UFC) is emerging from a June loss to Sean Pierson at UFC 161 and may be facing the executioner’s axe if he can’t pick up this UFC win. Despite an overall lack of success in the Octagon, Robertson’s career gained an unconventional extension in February when he garnered Submission of the Night honors after literally tearing Brock Jardine’s hamstring during the fight.
The touted Zeferino (13-5, 0-1 UFC) appears to be getting this fight because he, like Robertson and the others, has a penchant for high-octane fighting. This will be Zeferino‘s first UFC fight at welterweight after he lost his Octagon debut to middleweight Rafael Natal.
UFC Fight Night 28 is headlined by two would-be light heavyweight title contenders Glover Teixeira and Ryan Bader. In the co-main event, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza faces Japanese ground-and-pound artist Yushin Okami.
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