Andrei
Arlovski will lock horns with Martin
Buday in a heavyweight bout at an
Ultimate Fighting Championship event on June 15.
Buday confirmed the booking on social media following an initial
report from MMAjunkie.com. UFC
Fight Night is expected to take place at the UFC Apex in Las
Vegas. A headliner has not been announced.
The matchup with Buday will mark Arlovski’s 42nd Octagon appearance
— the second most in UFC history behind Jim Miller.
After winning four straight contests from April 2021 to April 2022,
the 45-year-old Belarusian has dropped his last three promotional
outings. Most recently, “The Pit Bull” suffered a unanimous
decision defeat to Waldo
Cortes-Acosta at UFC Fight Night 234 on Jan. 13.
A winner on Dana White’s Contender Series in October 2021, Buday
kicked off his UFC tenure with four consecutive triumphs. That
ended in his last outing, when the Slovakian suffered a
second-round TKO loss against Shamil
Gaziev at UFC 296.