Tag: Matchmaking Bulletin

MMA News has you covered with this week’s UFC matchmaking bulletin, featuring all the additions to upcoming fight cards.

With events being held most weekends, Mick Maynard and Sean Shelby have their matchmaking work cut out if they’re to fill them, meaning new bouts are confirmed each and every week.

Between Monday, December 23, and Sunday, January 5, a few notable fights were made official by the UFC or reported as being in the works by reputable sources. For more information on those matchups, see the links below:

• Calvin Kattar vs. Youssef Zalal – UFC Vegas 102 (February 15)
• Steve Erceg vs. Asu Almabayev – UFC Vegas 103 (March 1)
• Kelvin Gastelum vs. Joe Pyfer – UFC Mexico (March 29)

Plenty of lower-profile bouts also came together. For those, check out the list below:

• Farès Ziam vs. Mike Davis – UFC Saudi Arabia (February 1)
• Wang Cong vs. Bruna Brasil – UFC 312 (February 8)
• Mansur Abdul-Malik vs. Antonio Trócoli – UFC Seattle (February 22)
• Nasrat Haqparast vs. Esteban Ribovics – UFC Vegas 103 (March 1)
• Andrea Lee vs. JJ Aldrich – UFC Vegas 103 (March 1)
• Charles Johnson vs. Ramazan Temirov – UFC Vegas 103 (March 1)
• Jhonata Diniz vs. Vitor Petrino – UFC 313 (March 8)
• Bruno Silva vs. Joshua Van – UFC 313 (March 8)
• Alex Morono vs. Carlos Leal – UFC 313 (March 8)
• Mairon Santos vs. Francis Marshall – UFC 313 (March 8)
• Brunno Ferreira vs. Armen Petrosyan – UFC 313 (March 8)
• Ozzy Diaz vs. Djorden Santos – UFC 313 (March 8)
• Diyar Nurgozhay vs. Brendson Ribeiro – UFC Vegas 104 (March 15)
• Sam Hughes vs. Stephanie Luciano – UFC Vegas 104 (March 15)
• Lone’er Kavanagh vs. Felipe dos Santos – UFC London (March 22)
• Yazmin Jauregui vs. Dione Barbosa – UFC Mexico (March 29)

But it wasn’t all positive, with a number of fights falling through or getting adjusted:

• Andreas Gustafsson (OUT, Jacobe Smith IN) vs. Preston Parsons – UFC Vegas 101 (January 11)
• Yanal Ashmouz (OUT, Joe Solecki IN) vs. Nurullo Aliev – UFC Vegas 101 (January 11)
• Jacob Malkoun (OUT, Andre Petroski IN) vs. Rodolfo Vieira – UFC Vegas 102 (February 15)

MMA News has you covered with this week’s UFC matchmaking bulletin, featuring all the additions to upcoming cards.

With events being held most weekends, Mick Maynard and Sean Shelby have their matchmaking work cut out if they’re to fill them, meaning new bouts are confirmed each and every week.

Between Monday, December 16, and Sunday, December 122, a few fights were made official by the UFC or reported as being in the works by reputable sources, with the most notable being the March 1 main event.

For more information on those matchups, check out the links below:

• Jack Jenkins vs. Gabriel Santos – UFC 312 (February 8)
• Jared Gordon vs. Kauê Fernandes – UFC Vegas 102 (February 15)
• Brandon Royval vs. Manel Kape – UFC Vegas 103 (March 1)
• Danny Barlow vs. Sam Patterson – UFC Vegas 103 (March 1)
• Waldo Cortes Acosta vs. Ryan Spann – UFC Vegas 104 (March 15)

Elsewhere, just one booked fight has been adjusted. For that, see below:

• Ryan Loder (OUT, Julian Marquez IN) vs. Cody Brundage – UFC Vegas 103 (March 1)

MMA News has you covered with this week’s UFC matchmaking bulletin, featuring all the additions to upcoming cards.

With events being held most weekends, Mick Maynard and Sean Shelby have their matchmaking work cut out if they’re to fill them, meaning new bouts are confirmed each and every week.

Between Monday, December 2, and Sunday, December 8, a number of notable fights were made official by the UFC or reported as being in the works by reputable sources. For more information on those matchups, check out the links below:

• Islam Makhachev vs. Arman Tsarukyan – UFC 311 (January 18)
• Merab Dvalishvili vs. Umar Nurmagomedov – UFC 311 (January 18)
• Beneil Dariush vs. Renato Moicano – UFC 311 (January 18)
• Dricus Du Plessis vs. Sean Strickland – UFC 312 (February 8)
• Zhang Weili vs. Tatiana Suarez – UFC 312 (February 8)
• Jared Cannonier vs. Gregory Rodrigues – UFC Vegas 102 (February 15)

Plenty of lower-profile matchups also came together. For those, check out this week’s quick hits:

• Marco Tulio vs. Ihor Potieria – UFC Vegas 101 (January 11)
• Tagir Ulanbekov vs. Clayton Carpenter – UFC 311 (January 18)
• Edmen Shahbazyan vs. Dylan Budka – UFC Vegas 102 (February 15)
• Billy Ray Goff vs. Nikolay Veretennikov – UFC Vegas 102 (February 15)
• Jean Silva vs. Melsik Baghdasaryan – UFC Seattle (February 22)
• Adam Fugitt vs. Islam Dulatov – UFC Seattle (February 22)
• Andrey Pulyaev vs. Christian Leroy Duncan – UFC London (March 22)
• Ronaldo Rodríguez vs. Kevin Borjas – UFC Mexico (March 29)

But it wasn’t all positive, with one fight being delayed. For information on that, see the link below:

• Mackenzie Dern vs. Amanda Ribas – UFC Tampa (December 14, rescheduled for UFC Vegas 101 on January 11)