Credit:Getty/UFC
Credit:Getty/UFC
Credit:Getty/UFC
Joseph
Pyfer, the lone fighter to be rewarded with a contract on Week
1 of the current season of Dana White’s Contender Series, will make
a relatively quick turnaround for his Ultimate Fighting
Championship debut.
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Pyfer will make his first promotional foray against Alen
Amedovski at
UFC Fight Night 210 on Sept. 17 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
The middleweight booking was first announced during the UFC 277
broadcast on Saturday night. UFC Fight Night 210 is headlined by a
bantamweight scrap between Cory
Sandhagen and Yadong
Song.
After falling to Dustin
Stoltzfus in his first appearance on the Contender Series in
August 2020, Pyfer made an impression on July 26, scoring a
second-round technical knockout victory against Legacy Fighting
Alliance champ Osman Diaz
in the evening’s featured bout. “Bodybagz” is 9-2 as a
professional, with all but one of his triumphs coming inside the
distance.
Macdonia’s Amedovski entered the Las Vegas-based promotion with an
8-0 mark but has fallen short in his first thee Octagon
appearances. Most recently, the American Top Team Rome product
suffered a first-round submission loss to Joseph
Holmes at UFC Fight Night 206 on May 21.