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December 10, 2024
Former mild heavyweight champion Jan
Blachowicz will return to motion in opposition to the streaking Carlos
Ulberg at UFC
London on March 22.
Moreover, Marcin
Tybura will lock horns with Mick Parkin
in a heavyweight conflict on the identical card. The promotion introduced
each bouts on Tuesday. A principal occasion has not been confirmed for UFC
London, which takes place on the O2 Area.
Blachowicz will likely be competing for the primary time since July 2023,
when he fell to Alex
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break up determination at UFC 291. The Polish veteran was slated to face
Aleksandar
Rakic in a rematch at UFC 297 in January, however a
shoulder harm that required two separate surgical procedures compelled him
to withdraw from the occasion. Blachowicz’s biggest run of UFC
success got here from October 2017 to March 2021, when he was
victorious in 9 of 10 Octagon appearances. Throughout that point, he
defeated Dominick
Reyes through TKO to say the vacant 205-pound belt and defended
the strap in opposition to Israel
Adesanya at UFC 259. He would relinquish the crown in opposition to
Glover
Teixeira one bout later.
Ulberg will take a seven-bout promotional profitable streak into the
matchup with Ulberg. “Black Jag” earned his most vital
triumph thus far in his final outing, when he outpointed former title
challenger Volkan
Oezdemir at UFC Combat Evening 248 on Nov. 23. Throughout his present
profitable streak, Ulberg has completed 5 of his seven victories
inside the space.
Tybura is coming off a second-round physician stoppage win over Jhonta
Diniz in a short-notice pairing at UFC 309. The 39-year-old Pole
went 2-1 in 2024, additionally scoring a first-round submission of Tai Tuivasa
in March.
A London native, Parkin has received 4 straight outings since incomes
a UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Collection in 2022. Most
just lately, Parking knocked out Lukasz
Brzeski within the opening stanza of their conflict at UFC 304.
