Anthony
Smith is expected to make his final walk to the Octagon against
Mingyang
Zhang at UFC
Kansas City.
Multiple outlets confirmed the light heavyweight booking following
an initial report from Kangzif on social media. The UFC Fight
Night event takes place on April 26 at the T-Mobile Center in
Kansas City, Kansas, and also includes a middleweight scrap between
Michel
Pereira and Abusupiyan
Magomedov. A headliner has not been announced for the
event.
Smith is coming off a 1-2 campaign in 2024. He began the year with
a first-round submission of Vitor
Petrino but then dropped back-to-back fights against Roman
Dolidze and Dominick
Reyes. After a second-round TKO loss to Reyes at UFC 310, the
former 205-pound title challenger revealed that he would like to have one more
Octagon appearance before calling it a career.
The 26-year-old Zhang will enter the matchup on an 11-bout
professional winning streak. The Chinese standout has kicked off
his UFC tenure with consecutive first-round stoppages of Brendson
Ribeiro and Osman Diaz.