Undefeated Russian fighter of the Kazakh Arlan MMA Pro Team Movsar Evloev (15-0) will fight his next fight in early June. The opponent of the fighter from Ingushetia will be the representative of the top 10 UFC featherweight division Dan Ige (15-5) from the USA. The bbabo.net correspondent spoke about the fight in more detail.
The fighter’s team announced that the fight will take place on June 4, but it is still unknown where the event will take place and whether it will be numbered. This will be the 27-year-old Evloev's first fight in 2022. Earlier, he had a confrontation with a Spanish fighter of Georgian origin, Ilia Topuria (11-0), with whom Movsar had a conflict. Now the 13th number of the featherweight rating Evloev will hold the next fight with the ninth fighter of the division, 30-year-old Ige.
Evloev is one of the brightest prospects in the division up to 66 kilograms. He has an incredible flawless record of 15 wins and no losses. In the American promotion, the fighter, whose manager is Kazakhstani Sayat Abdrakhmanov, won five victories (all by decision). Movsar held his last fight in June last year, defeating Canadian Hakim Davoda (13-2-1) by unanimous decision. It turns out that Evloev’s downtime between fights will drag on for a year. And in the status of an Arlan MMA Pro Team fighter, the Russian has not yet competed in the UFC. He became part of the Kazakh team in the second half of June 2021.
As for Ige, nicknamed "50 K" (a reference to bonuses for the best performance or the best fight of the evening in the UFC, for which fighters receive 50 thousand dollars - approx. ed.), He has been with the promotion since the beginning of 2018. In four years, he fought 11 fights, scoring seven victories and suffering four losses. From June 2018 to the summer of 2020, Dan won six straight victories in the UFC octagon, loudly declaring himself as a dangerous prospect. But in July 2020, the American met with his compatriot Calvin Kattar (23-5), whom he lost by unanimous decision.
In March last year, Ige knocked out Gavin Tucker (13-2) in the 22nd second, but then suffered two defeats in a row by unanimous decision - from the "Korean Zombie" (17-6) and Josh Emmett (17-2). For the first time in his career, Dan is on a series of defeats, and now he has an even more difficult task - to remove Evloev, unbeaten and hungry for victories, from the path.
Fighters are united by several statistical indicators. Firstly, both produced 15 victories in their professional careers. Secondly, both win by decision more often - Evloev has eight such wins (three knockouts and four submissions), six - Ige (four knockouts and five submissions). Thirdly, both did not lose ahead of schedule - Movsar has no defeats at all, and Ige has only a decision. Ige is well acquainted with fighters from Russia - he is on good friendly terms with Khabib Nurmagomedov and his team. They are united by one management company, and several times they trained together. However, this will be Dan's first fight against a Russian athlete. At the same time, Evloev himself had already fought the Americans twice and won both times.
It will be a very interesting fight. Although Ige lost the last two fights, it is worth noting that the opponents were higher than him in the ranking. Evloev is four positions behind Dan. If the fighter of the Kazakh team wins, he will almost certainly take the place of the American in the top ten. Adesanya - Whittaker revenge, Morozov and Lewis fights. What will happen at the UFC 271 tournament and where to watch it
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