A featherweight showdown pitting Arnold
Allen against Calvin
Kattar is in the works to headline the Ultimate Fighting
Championship’s Oct. 29 card.
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UFC president Dana White revealed to promotion broadcast partner
ESPN on Wednesday that the bout has nearly been finalized. The
UFC Fight Night 213 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas
and also is expected to include a 145-pound co-main event between
Edson
Barboza and Ilia
Topuria.
The 28-year-old Allen has lost just once in 19 professional
outings. The Englishman is 9-0 in the Las Vegas-based promotion and
is coming off a first-round technical knockout victory against
Dan
Hooker at UFC Fight Night 204 on March 19. His record includes
other notable wins against the likes of Sodiq
Yusuff, Gilbert
Melendez, Nik Lentz and
Mads
Burnell. This will be Allen’s first five-round main event in
the UFC.
Kattar, meanwhile, has been in four consecutive headlining bouts —
all of which have gone the full five rounds. “The Boston Finisher”
is 2-2 in those contests, including a narrow split-decision defeat
to Josh
Emmett in his last outing at UFC on ESPN 37 on June 18.
Kattar’s resume features victories against Giga
Chikadze, Dan Ige,
Jeremy
Stephens, Ricardo
Lamas and Shane
Burgos, to name a few.