A heavyweight clash pitting Andrei
Arlovski against Martin
Buday will take place two weeks later than originally
expected.
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The bout, which was slated for UFC
Fight Night on June 15, has been moved to UFC 303
on June 29 for undisclosed reasons. Buday announced the shift on
social media, and it has been confirmed by multiple outlets. The
heavyweight combatants will now have a considerably larger stage
for their bout, as UFC 303 takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las
Vegas and is headlined by a welterweight scrap between Conor
McGregor and Michael
Chandler.
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.