Fight news we’re back in Vegas pic.twitter.com/hYzziXhGpF
— Terrance McKinney (@twrecks155)
December 3, 2021
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your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the
ESPN app. Although rising Ultimate Fighting Championship talent Terrance
McKinney couldn’t aim for five knockouts in 2021, he will get a
chance to start 2022 off right in February. On Friday, McKinney’s (11-3) management team of Iridium
Sports Agency posted on Twitter of the rescheduled matchup
between McKinney and Fares Ziam
(12-3) on Feb. 26. Minutes later, McKinney confirmed this by
reposting it on his own Twitter
page. The two lightweights are now set to square off at the UFC
Apex in Las Vegas on a currently unnumbered
UFC Fight Night card at the end of February. They were
originally planning on meeting at UFC Fight Night 198 in November,
but a member of McKinney’s corner tested positive for COVID-19 and
the bout was scratched.
Win or lose, “T.Wrecks” has never left a fight in the hands of the
judges as a pro, with 12 of his 14 outings ending in the first
round. McKinney ended a two-fight skid to future UFC roster members
Sean
Woodson and Darrick
Minner in 2019 by putting Dedrek
Sanders away in 16 seconds in March. A pair of obliterations of
Luiz
Antonio Lobo Gavinho and Michael
Irizarry led to his callup to the majors, where he steamrolled
Matt
Frevola in an incredible seven seconds in his UFC debut. The
last four wins of the Sikjitsu product have combined for a total of
1:52 of cage time.
As the fight was scuttled hours before they planned to meet, Ziam
did not get a new opponent in November. The Frenchman will still
come into this meeting with a two-fight decision win streak over
Jamie
Mullarkey and Luigi
Vendramini in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Since joining the
promotion in 2019, “Smile Killer” has yet to appear more than once
in a calendar year. A whole 75% of his wins have come by finish,
although three of his last four triumphs resulted in judges’
decisions.
The Feb. 26 UFC Fight Night event will take place in the UFC Apex
in Las Vegas, with a major lightweight headliner pitting Beniel
Dariush against Islam
Makhachev in a potential title eliminator bout. Other key
matchups set for the card include a middleweight clash between
Makhmud
Muradov and Misha
Cirkunov, as well as 155-pound battle between Arman
Tsarukyan and Joel
Alvarez.
