The
Road to Dubai undercard will have a distinctly Middle Eastern
flavor.
The Professional Fighters League on Wednesday announced the full
preliminary lineup for the Jan. 25 event, which takes place at
Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai on Jan. 25. The featured prelim is a
middleweight clash pitting Tarek
Suleiman against Ahmed
Sami.
Six other bouts were also confirmed for the event: Hadi
Omar Al Hussaini vs. Ruel
Panales at flyweight; Yakub
Sulimanov vs. Jarrah
Al-Silawi at middleweight; John
Mitchell vs. Souhil
Tahiri at lightweight; Youssef
Al Housani vs. Assem
Ghanem at featherweight; Mostafa
Rashed Nada vs. Haider Khan
at middleweight and Mirafzal
Akhtamov vs. Mike
Thompson at lightweight.
Road to Dubai is headlined by a lightweight championship showdown
betweeen Usman
Nurmagomedov and Paul
Hughes. The promotion is still in search of a new co-main event
following the recent cancellation of a proposed trilogy bout
between Vadim
Nemkov and Corey
Anderson.