Of those two new
Final Preventing Championship pairings, considered one of them may not
make a lot sense.
On Thursday and Friday, two attention-grabbing matches at 185 kilos had been
slotted into the lineup for
UFC Chicago. The middleweight contests will play out inside
the United Heart on Aug. 16. The primary, as introduced by the
Preventing
Nerds workforce, pits Gerald
Meerschaert (37-19) in opposition to Michal
Oleksiejczuk (20-9, 1 NC) in about as quintessential of a
striker vs. grappler affair one might make. The second, which was
launched by the promotion itself
on Friday, takes place between Jared
Cannonier (18-8) and Michael
Web page (23-3).
Submission savant Meerschaert has dropped his final two, accounting
for a submission defeat to Reinier
de Ridder final November, and a call to Brad
Tavares in April. These two losses put a pair of second-round
submissions within the rear view, as he had wrangled Bryan
Barberena and Edmen
Shahbazyan to stay related on the mercurial division. Since
becoming a member of the promotion in 2016, each win for “GM3” has been a
stoppage.
Whereas the submission fee for Meerschaert is a bit below 80%, the
knockout fee for Oleksiejczuk is sort of that as effectively—when including
his lone sub, a rear-naked choke, the Polish fighter’s stoppage
fee rises to an excellent 80%. In April, “Hussar” put distance between
three consecutive losses by getting again within the win column with a
beatdown of Sedriques
Dumas. All however considered one of Oleksiejczuk’s victories within the promotion
have come by knockout.
Ex-title challenger Cannonier finds himself in a wierd scenario,
having fought many of the high 10 at 185 kilos. Beforehand
dispatching Gregory
Rodrigues within the fourth body atop their UFC Combat Night time 251
occasion in February, Cannonier stored himself within the title image. It
marked his first knockout in virtually precisely three years, with the
41-year-old usually going all three or 5 rounds as of
late.
This won’t be the primary middleweight jaunt for Web page, as he
examined the waters in Tremendous Combat League in 2013. Over time,
the Brit has additionally dabbled in a number of catchweights above 170 kilos
to be able to get competitors. In his final day out, he relocated to
185 kilos formally to outhustle Sharabutdin
Magomedov, taking a call over the one-eyed striker.
These two middleweight clashes will doubtless serve on the principle card
of UFC 319, also called UFC Chicago. The principle attraction additionally
comes on the identical weight class, with the promotion probably
constructing in backup plans in case the title tilt of Dricus Du
Plessis vs. Khamzat
Chimaev falls aside—rumors have swirled that Chimaev is already
out, and that Nassourdine
Imavov might step up, however these have been unsubstantiated to this
level. Different matches on the billing embrace a flyweight thriller
between Tim Elliott
and Kai
Asakura, in addition to a light-weight banger pitting Edson
Barboza in opposition to Drakkar
Klose.
