Former
Ultimate Fighting Championship champ Cody
Garbrandt is getting back on the horse after his first career
submission loss.
Eurosport
NL broke the news on Thursday that Garbrandt (14-6) would be
returning to the Octagon against Miles Johns
(15-2, 1 NC) at a currently unnamed UFC Fight Night card on Oct.
12. The fighters have confirmed this collision at the UFC Apex on
their Instagram pages.
There is currently no main event on the books for this show.
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Garbrandt saw a two-fight win streak—his longest since 2016—come to
a crashing halt when former flyweight king Deiveson
Figueiredo tapped him out at UFC 300. In the process, “No Love”
suffered the first submission defeat as a pro, and he has still not
registered a sub in the win column. His two wins came in 2023 came
over Trevin
Jones on the scorecards and Brian
Kelleher via blistering one-punch knockout. Garbrandt came into
the promotion undefeated and won a belt against Dominick
Cruz in 2016, but he has gone 3-6 since that triumph.
Johns has quietly put together a four-fight unbeaten streak in the
Octagon, with decision wins over Douglas
Silva de Andrade and Vince
Morales to bolster his bantamweight credentials. While he also
beat Dan Argueta
along the way, he failed a post-fight drug test for metabolites of
oral turinabol. The Marathon MMA fighter has only fallen short to
Mario
Bautista and John
Castaneda in his career thus far, while registering devastating
knockouts over Anderson
dos Santos and Kevin
Natividad while on the roster.
Additionally, management team Iridium Sports Agency announced on
Thursday a pair of welterweight scraps for the same event. At this
Oct. 12 show, Themba
Gorimbo (13-4) and Niko Price
(16-7, 2 NC) will
throw down, while Chidi
Njokuani (23-10, 1 NC) will collide
with Jared
Gooden (23-9).
Since losing his promotional debut to A.J.
Fletcher in 2023, Gorimbo has rebounded to rattle off three
straight victories. He has gone the distance against Takashi
Sato and Ramiz
Brahimaj—and apologized for those performances—while dusting
Pete
Rodriguez in a little over 30 seconds. Price has not shown the
same success as his opponent as of late, winning just once in his
last three. While Price’s last performance was a decision victory
over Alex Morono,
he was previously punched out by Philip Rowe
and Robbie
Lawler.
Njokuani moved back to welterweight this year and faced Rhys McKee,
narrowly escaping the pairing with a split decision. That put
“Chidi Chidi Bang Bang” back in the green, as he had sustained
three straight losses to Gregory
Rodrigues, Albert
Duraev and Michal
Oleksiejczuk to prompt a change. Gooden came back to the UFC
last year after a couple years away, and his return jaunt was
unsuccessful as Carlston
Harris beat him on the scorecards. He has since gone on to tap
out Wellington
Turman in December.