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Sean Strickland and Abus Magomedov will sq. off in a meeting of middleweight contenders tonight because the pair conflict in a UFC Combat Night main tournament.
American Strickland, 32, is looking to kind it lend a hand-to-lend a hand wins, having crushed Nassourdine Imavov on points in January, following two straight losses final year.
Meanwhile, German-Russian Magomedov, additionally 32, enters Las Vegas on the lend a hand of a three-battle win sprint, with all of these wins having attain by task of stoppage.
Strickland sits at No 7 in the middleweight rankings as he bids to re-enter the title picture, and he is risking his assign aside in the tip 10 here as he faces an unranked opponent in Magomedov.
Here’s all or no longer it’s critical to understand.
When is it?
The tournament will snatch assign aside on Saturday 1 July, at the UFC Apex institute in Las Vegas.
The prelims are dwelling to begin at 9pm BST (1pm PT, 3pm CT, 4pm ET). The main card is then on account of train at 12am BST on Sunday 2 July (4pm PT, 6pm CT, 7pm ET on Saturday).
How can I glance it?
The cardboard will air live on BT Sport in the UK, with the broadcaster’s app and website additionally streaming the fights.
In the US, ESPN+ will stream the motion live, as will the UFC’s Combat Cross.
Odds
Strickland – 4/7
Magomedov – 13/10
Beefy odds by task of Betway.
Beefy card (field to interchange)
Main card
Sean Strickland vs Abus Magomedov (middleweight)
Damir Ismagulov vs Grant Dawson (mild-weight)
Max Griffin vs Michael Morales (welterweight)
Ariane Lipski vs Melissa Gatto (ladies’s flyweight)
Ismael Bonfim vs Benoit Saint-Denis (mild-weight)
Brunno Ferreira vs Nursulton Ruziboev (middleweight)
Prelims
Kevin Lee vs Rinat Fakhretdinov (welterweight)
Joanderson Brito vs Westin Wilson (featherweight)
Yana Santos vs Karol Rosa (ladies’s bantamweight)
Guram Kutateladze vs Elves Brener (mild-weight)
Ivana Petrovic vs Luana Carolina (ladies’s flyweight)
Alexandr Romanov vs Blagoy Ivanov (heavyweight)
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