Credit:Getty/UFC
Credit: Getty/UFC
Credit: Getty/UFC
One of these two Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweights’
undefeated records will come to an end soon.
The news broke on Thursday from Fight
Bananas that Bryce
Mitchell (15-0) is now booked against fellow unbeaten
145-pounder Movsar
Evloev (16-0) on Nov. 5. The two will battle it out on UFC
Fight Night 214, which does not currently have a headliner and
is not expect to be capped off by this matchup. Mitchell spoke of
his fight news on his social
media shortly before the report came out, and other
outlets have also confirmed this pairing.
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“Thug Nasty” Mitchell has rattled off five straight wins since
prevailing in the 27th season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” where he
beat Tyler
Diamond by majority verdict to earn the fabled “six-figure
contract.” Mitchell started off his career with nine straight wins,
with his first eight coming by submission within two rounds. Since
then, he has gone the distance in five of his last six.
Like Mitchell, Evloev has never tasted defeat as a professional,
and he too is 6-0 since joining the UFC roster. Across their 12
combined UFC outings, Mitchell has recorded one single submission –
a twister of Matt Sayles
– while Evloev has gone the distance in every one of those fights.
After only five fights at 145 pounds, Evloev has already earned
himself a place in the
top 10 for the most takedowns landed in divisional history,
with 27 in total. This includes a whopping 18 in his last two
fights, landing nine against both Hakeem
Dawodu and Dan Ige.
UFC Fight Night 214 will take place inside the UFC Apex in Nov. 5,
and it does not currently have a main event on the books. Fights
other than Mitchell-Evloev like to draw main-card billing include a
strawweight clash between Marina
Rodriguez and Amanda
Lemos, a flyweight contest where Miranda
Maverick faces Shanna
Young, and a flyweight tilt pitting Tagir
Ulanbekov against Nathan
Maness.