UFC is finalizing a light heavyweight bout
between Jimmy Crute and Jamahal Hill for the UFC Fight Night event
on Oct. 2, multiple sources told @bokamotoESPN.
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July 9, 2021
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ESPN app. It appears that Ultimate Fighting Championship light
heavyweights Jamahal
Hill and Jimmy Crute
will both be able to fight again soon after going down mid-fight
with bad injuries. On Friday, ESPN broke the news
that Crute (12-2) and Hill (8-1, 1 NC) will tangle on the Oct. 2
UFC Fight Night card. Crute first posted about his new
four-fight contract as well as his next match, which is set to be
against Hill, on Thursday. The pairing will be less than four
months removed from Hill suffering a horrific arm injury from an
armbar, but “Sweet Dreams” has been cleared to compete again. Crute
sustained an injury of his own in April as well.
Hill had his arm snapped in June from an armbar from Paul Craig,
but referee Al Guinee did not see the damage and did not halt the
fight. Instead, from a triangle position, Craig pummeled Hill,
whose arm was hanging limp, with punches and elbows until Guinee
finally stepped in. The loss was the first in Hill’s career, who
had gone unbeaten in nine fights to that point including a match
overturned to a no contest after Hill tested positive for marijuana
– a substance now allowed in Nevada, where the May 2020 fight took
place.
Crute will be looking to rebound from his first knockout loss, when
Anthony
Smith deadened his leg with kicks. The doctor stoppage at the
end of Round 1 came after Crute was unable to put weight in his
left leg, awarding the win to Smith. Since his appearance on Season
2 of Dana White’s Contender Series, Crute has yet to
go the distance, with all seven fights ending by stoppage, win or
lose.
The UFC Fight Night event on Oct. 2 will be held inside the UFC
Apex, and it will be capped off by a light heavyweight thriller
between Thiago
Santos and Johnny
Walker. Middleweights Kevin
Holland and Kyle
Daukaus will also throw down that night, as well as Diego
Ferreira vs. Grant
Dawson at lightweight.
