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Kris
Moutinho will get a second opportunity in the UFC after giving
a valiant short-notice effort in his Octagon debut.
Moutinho will meet Aaron
Phillips in a bantamweight contest at UFC Fight Night on Oct.
23.
MMAjunkie.com was first to report the booking. The card is
headlined by a middleweight tilt pitting Paulo Costa
against Marvin
Vettori.
Moutinho stepped up to face Sean O’Malley at UFC 264, losing via
third-round TKO in what will likely end up as a “Beatdown of the
Year” candidate. Still, Moutinho absorbed most of what O’Malley had
to offer right up until the stoppage near the end of the fight. The
CES MMA veteran is 9-5 over the course of a professional tenure
that began in 2016.
Phillips, meanwhile, had a five-fight winning streak snapped in his
last outing, when he was submitted by Jack Shore
in the second round at UFC on ESPN 13. The Louisiana native is
still looking for his first Octagon triumph after going 0-2 in UFC
competition during a previous stint in 2014.