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The UFC’s fall fight cards are starting to book up, including a face-off between all action featherweights Andre ‘Touchy’ Fili and ‘Thugnasty’ Bryce Mitchell.
The UFC’s 2020 may have come to a grinding halt somewhere around mid-march, but after a re-boot back in late May, the promotion has been on a non-stop charge of events. Currently the UFC has at least one card per week (more if you count the Contender Series) all the way out into mid-December. And those fall and winter fight cards are starting to fill up.
That includes the UFC’s upcoming Halloween offering, which just added a top shelf, all-action featherweight bout between Andre Fili and Bryce Mitchell. First reported by MMA Junkie, ‘Touchy’ is fresh off a split decision victory over Charles Jourdain at UFC on ESPN: Eye vs. Calvillo back in June. That victory provided a solid bounce back to a rough decision loss suffered against Sodiq Yusuff in January. The 21-7 Team Alpha Male fighter has never lost more than one fight in a row, stretching all the way back to his introduction to the UFC back in 2013.
Arkansas’ Bryce Mitchell has somewhat taken the UFC’s featherweight division by storm. The 25-year-old Westside MMA athlete hit the Octagon for the first time just back in 2018, fresh off a disappointing run on the Ultimate Fighter 27. While Mitchell dropped his second round bout on the show to eventual winner Brad Katona, he’s yet to chalk up an official loss in his pro fighting career.
Currently at 13-0, Mitchell is now 4-0 in the UFC’s featherweight division, and coming off a dominant victory over Charles Rosa back in May. In December of last year, Mitchell snatched up a place in the UFC history books with a rare twister submission win over Matt Sayles. Mitchell’s twister was just the second such submission in UFC history, coming more than 8 years after Chan Sung Jung landed the move on Leonard Garcia.
The October 31st fight card is expected to be headlined by a middleweight fight between Anderson Silva and Uriah Hall. An official location for the event has yet to be announced.