Seasoned middleweights Brad
Tavares and Jun Yong
Park are slated to trade leather in July.
Tavares (20-9) and Park (17-6) will meet at UFC
Fight Night on July 20 at the promotion’s Apex facility in Las
Vegas. The matchup was first announced by Park’s representatives, First
Round Management Asia, on social media.
Tavares is currently 1-3 in his last four and will enter the
Octagon fresh off a technical knockout loss to Gregory
Rodrigues in February. Tavares will make his 25th UFC
appearance against Park.
Meanwhile, Park is coming off a controversial split-decision loss
to Andre
Muniz in February that snapped a four-fight winning streak that
included three submissions. Prior to that, “The Iron Turtle”
suffered a Round 2 knockout loss against the aforementioned
Rodrigues in 2021.