The elder brother of
UFC featherweight champion Ilia
Topuria will make his Octagon debut Down Under.
Aleksandre
Topuria is expected to face Cody Haddon
in a bantamweight bout at UFC 312
on Feb. 8. The booking was initially reported by Australian MMA and subsequently confirmed by MMAjunkie.com. UFC 312 takes place at Qudos
Bank Arena in Sydney and is headlined by a middleweight
championship rematch between Dricus Du
Plessis and Sean
Strickland.
The 28-year-old Topuria will be competing for the first time since
May 2023, when he defeated Johan Segas
via first-round technical knockout at The Way of the Warrior 9 in
Madrid, Spain. “El Conquistador” has won five of his six
professional outings, with all of his victories coming inside the
distance. He began his professional MMA tenure in 2015 and fought
three times that year but did not return to action again until
December 2021.
A native of Perth, Haddon has been victorious in eight of his nine
professional bouts. After submitting Billy Brand
on
Dana White’s Contender Series this past August, the 26-year-old
Aussie outpointed Dan Argueta
in his promotional debut at UFC Fight Night 244 on Oct. 12. Haddon
has finished all but one of his career triumphs.