Russian fighter Magomed Ankalayev and Brazilian Alex Pereira will be able to fight at the UFC 310 tournament, which is scheduled to take place on December 7 in Las Vegas, reports MMA Mania.
On Thursday it became known that UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad withdrew from the fight against Kazakhstan’s Shavkat Rakhmonov due to medical reasons. Their confrontation was to be the main event of the evening.
According to the source, the tournament organizers approached Pereira and offered him a fight with Ankalaev.
Last weekend, Ankalaev defeated Serbian-Austrian fighter Aleksandar Rakic by unanimous decision at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi.
Ankalaev, 32, has 19 wins and one loss in MMA, he also tied a fight and one of his fights was declared invalid. Current light heavyweight champion Pereira has won 12 fights with two defeats.
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