Dana White’s Contender Series alum Ange Loosa
will step in on short notice to face Mounir
Lazzez at UFC
on ESPN 34 this Saturday.
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Loosa is a replacement for Elizeu
Zaleski dos Santos, who withdrew from the event for personal
reasons. The Wrestling Observer was first to
report the new welterweight booking. UFC on ESPN 34 takes place
at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a 170-pound
showdown pitting Vicente
Luque against Belal
Muhammad.
Loosa came up short on the Contender Series, dropping a unanimous
verdict to Jack
Della Maddalena this past September. The 28-year-old Fight Move
Academy representative rebounded to take a unanimous decision win
against UFC veteran John Howard
at XMMA 4 on April 2 to run his professional mark to 8-2.
Lazzez will return to action for the first time since UFC on ESPN
20, where he suffered a first-round TKO loss to Warlley
Alves in January 2021. “Sniper” debuted in the Octagon with a
decision win against Abdul
Razak Alhassan at UFC on ESPN 13.