A middleweight meeting between Rodolfo
Vieira and Armen
Petrosyan has been rebooked for
Feb. 10’s UFC Fight Night event. The news was first reported by MMA
Fighting.
The middleweights were initially set to compete at UFC Fight Night
231 on Nov. 4. However, the bout failed to materialize at the last
minute due to Petrosyan reportedly falling ill and subsequently
withdrawing from the match.
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Vieira (9-2), a jiu-jitsu phenom, has won two of his last three
outings inside the Octagon. In his most recent outing in April, the
Brazilian secured an impressive Round 2 arm-triangle submission
against Cody
Brundage.
Petrosyan (9-2), on the other hand, has managed to bounce back from
his sophomore
Ultimate Fighting Championship loss to Caio
Borralho in July 2022 and is currently on a two-fight winning
streak that saw him secure back-to-back unanimous decision wins
against A.J. Dobson
and Christian
Leroy Duncan.
The Fight Night event on Feb. 10, set to go down at the UFC Apex in
Las Vegas, will be headlined by another middleweight matchup
between Jack
Hermansson (23-8) and
Dana White’s Contender Series alum Joseph
Pyfer (12-2).
Additionally, in the third middleweight bout of the evening,
Gregory
Rodrigues (14-5) will face divisional veteran Brad
Tavares (20-8) in a three-round affair.