#TeamIridium hammer @CodyStamann
goes for his 6th @ufc win in June!
#TheDarkside pic.twitter.com/Q63ANmQgxF— Jason House
(@JasonKHouse)
April 15, 2022
The Ultimate Fighting Championship card in mid-June
has just experienced a few changes.
On Friday morning, the management team of Cody
Stamann (19-5-1), Iridium
Sports Agency, announced that he would be fighting at the
UFC
Fight Night card on June 18. In his bantamweight battle, he
will take on longtime veteran Eddie
Wineland (24-15-1).
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Stamann will be looking to end a three-fight skid, where he fell
short to Jimmie
Rivera and Merab
Dvalishvili on the scorecards, and was choked out by Said
Nurmagomedov in less than a minute in January. Before the trio
of setbacks, “The Spartan” had strung together an impressive ledger
inside the Octagon, with five wins opposite a single defeat to
current champ Aljamain
Sterling, and a draw with Yadong Song
up a division. Stamann has moved back and forth from bantamweight
to featherweight throughout his career, and he will remain at 135
pounds for this encounter.
Wineland too has fallen on hard times as of late, with only one
victory dating back to the end of 2016. A former UFC interim title
challenger and the very first World Extreme Cagefighting bantamweight
champion, now at 37, Wineland has suffered consecutive knockout
defeats to Sean
O’Malley and John
Castaneda in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Across a career that
began in 2003, Wineland has amassed an impressive finish rate of
80%.
Additionally, MMA
Junkie first reported on Friday that Wellington
Turman would no longer be competing at this event. In his stead
against Julian
Marquez (9-2) will be Gregory
Rodrigues (11-4) at middleweight. The report has since been
confirmed by Marquez on his Instagram. The UFC
has not yet made public where this event will take place.
“The Cuban Missile Crisis” Marquez is still looking to get back to
action for the first time in over a year, when he faces a new
opponent in Rodriguez. Every one of Marquez’ career victories have
come inside the distance, while the only two times he has gone to
the scorecards, he has lost. Since joining the promotion in 2017
off of the first season of Dana White’s Contender Series, Marquez has
fought just four times, with a trio of finishes over Darren
Stewart, Maki Pitolo
and Sam
Alvey making him one to watch despite his relative
inactivity.
The hard-hitting Brazilian known as “Robocop” will be returning to
the cage following a narrow split decision loss to Armen
Petrosyan in February, one in which the
majority of scoring media members believed Rodrigues had won.
The unsuccessful effort snapped a four-fight win streak that
included a pair of wins inside the Octagon, making his company
debut in 2021 by snagging a decision against Dusko
Todorovic. His sophomore appearance against Jun Yong
Park went his way when became the first man to knock out “The
Iron Turtle,” doing so in the second round, thereby advancing his
own high stoppage rate to 82%.
The UFC Fight Night card on June 18 does not currently have a venue
or city set, but the promotion may settle on staging it at the UFC
Apex in Las Vegas. The headliner has not yet been made official. In
addition to the previous two fights that will likely go on the main
card, Damir
Ismagulov will throw down with Guram
Kutateladze in the lightweight division as well. Additionally,
Kyle
Daukaus faces Roman
Dolidze and Phil Hawes
will finally come to blows with Deron Winn,
both at middleweight.