Derrick Lewis, Tai Tuivasa battle to be added to UFC 271 in Houston
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Brett Okamoto
ESPN Staff Writer
The UFC is reserving a heavyweight challenge between Derrick Lewis and Tai Tuivasa for its compensation per-view occasion one month from now, authorities affirmed to ESPN.
Contracts have not been marked, yet the advancement is near concluding the matchup for UFC 271 on Feb. 12 in Houston.
Lewis (26-8) is a previous double cross title challenger. He battled Ciryl Gane for the break title in August, and lost by means of third-round TKO. Lewis is from Houston and conceded after the battle the strain of battling for a title in his old neighborhood affected his presentation. One month from now will check his first retaliate in Houston since that misfortune.
The 36-year-old holds the record for most knockouts in UFC history with 13. He scored a first-round knockout over Chris Daukaus in quite a while latest battle in December in Las Vegas.
Tuivasa (14-3), of Sydney, is riding a four-battle win streak. He has taken out his last four adversaries, remembering three for 2021.
A middleweight title battle between Israel Adesanya (21-1) and Robert Whittaker (23-5) is booked to feature the occasion.
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The UFC is finishing a five-round headliner between previous lightweight hero Rafael Dos Anjos and rising competitor Rafael Fiziev for Feb. 19, numerous sources told ESPN.
Contracts have not been marked, however the two sides have consented to the matchup. The 155-pound challenge will feature the UFC Fight Night occasion in Las Vegas.
Dos Anjos (30-13) will get back to activity interestingly since he acquired a split-choice win over Paul Felder in November 2020. The Brazilian lightweight was planned to confront Islam Makhachev in a profoundly expected session in October, however had to pull out due to injury.
Dos Anjos is once again at lightweight in the wake of contending in the welterweight division from 2017 to 2020. He won a UFC title at this load in 2015.
Fiziev (11-1), of Kyrgyzstan, is on a five-battle series of wins. He is falling off a feature reel knockout of Brad Riddell at a UFC Fight Night last month. That success acquired him a spot in the UFC's true rankings. Dos Anjos and Fiziev are positioned Nos. 6 and 11, separately.
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Heavyweight champions Tyson Fury, Francis Ngannou exchange web-based media pokes over potential hybrid battle
6 Jan, 2022
Brett Okamoto
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Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou, the two baddest men in battle sports, have a lot of choices for large battles in 2022 - - yet that is not preventing them from peering toward one another.
In a web-based media post on Thursday, Fury, the WBC's heavyweight champion in boxing, communicated interest in battling Ngannou, the UFC's heavyweight lord. With an end goal to improve the deal, Fury asserted he would confront Ngannou in the ring wearing the UFC's four-ounce gloves, rather than his conventional 10-ounce boxing gloves.
"Who might want to see me battle this monster boxing rules [UFC] gloves," Fury composed on Twitter. He labeled Ngannou and UFC president Dana White in the post.
Ngannou, of Cameroon, immediately reacted, proposing to confront Fury in boxing gloves however with MMA rules.
Under current conditions, the matchup is not exactly reasonable sooner rather than later. Ngannou (16-3) is planned to shield his title against Ciryl Gane at UFC 270 on Jan. 22 in Anaheim, California. Rage, of England, is relied upon to confront WBC compulsory title challenger Dillian Whyte, albeit the particulars of that potential session are as yet being arranged.
Ngannou's agreement status with the UFC is fascinating, in any case, in that he is on the last battle of his arrangement. If Ngannou somehow managed to lose to Gane at UFC 270, he would promptly turn into a confined free specialist. That could open the entryway for him to sign with another advancement. Assuming that he holds his title, he would stay with the UFC under a title provision.
Ngannou, who presently battles out of Las Vegas, has openly communicated interest in a fight for quite a while.
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