A light heavyweight clash has been added to a UFC
Fight Night event in February.
Power punchers Ion
Cutelaba (18-10) and Ibo Aslan
(14-1) will trade leather at a UFC card on Feb. 22, which is
expected to go down in Seattle. The matchup was first reported by Marcel Dorff.
Cutelaba is 7-9 in the UFC, putting on entertaining displays while
usually falling prey to elite competition. While the Moldovan
dropped all of his three bouts in 2022, he has since improved his
fortunes. “The Hulk” has sandwiched a loss against Philipe
Lins between a KO win over Tanner
Boser and most recently, a split decision over Ivan Erslan
this past September.
Meanwhile, Aslan came into UFC with a knockout win over Paulo
Renato Jr. on Dana White’s Contender Series last year. “The
Last Ottoman” scored a technical knockout win over Anton
Turkalj in his UFC debut this past March, avenging his lone
career loss which came against “The Pleasure Man” under the Brave
CF banner in 2020. The Turkish more recently knocked out Raffael
Cerqueira at UFC 308 last month, maintaining his 100% finish
rate.