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Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight Cody
Stamann is moving on from Merab
Dvalishvili as an opponent. According to a report from
BJPenn.com on Friday, Stamann (19-3-1) has received a new
opponent at
UFC Fight Night 184. The Feb. 6 fight card, which previously
had Stamann booked against Dvalishvili, will instead bring Andre Ewell
(17-6) as his foe. Stamann and Dvalishvili were originally slated
to meet in December, but both men contracted COVID-19 to push the
bout back to February. Stamann confirmed news of his new opponent
on Instagram.
Since starting his career off at an impressive 17-1 including three
wins inside the Octagon, Stamann has gone through tumultuous times.
A Suloev stretch kneebar defeat to Aljamain
Sterling in 2018 snapped a 10-fight win streak, although he did
go on to win his next bout against Alejandro
Perez. A draw with Yadong
Song, where Song lost a point in the opening round from an
illegal knee, came between the Perez performance and a subsequent
win over Brian
Kelleher. His last appearance was unsuccessful, when he took a
short-notice bout against Jimmie
Rivera at featherweight and lost by decision.
Ewell is riding a two-fight split decision victory win streak into
his short-notice opportunity against Stamann. In 2020, Ewell scored
a pair of split verdicts against Jonathan
Martinez and Irwin
Rivera for this streak. “Mr. Highlight” made his promotional
debut in 2018, where he also won a split decision, but against
former bantamweight kingpin Renan Barao.
With four wins on the scorecards in his UFC tenure, those wins
account for two-thirds of his career decision triumphs.
UFC Fight Night 184 goes down at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Feb.
6, with a headliner between Alistair
Overeem and Alexander
Volkov at heavyweight. The co-main event draws a bantamweight
scrap between Cory
Sandhagen and Frankie
Edgar, while additional main card bouts include a Diego
Ferreira vs. Beneil
Dariush rematch at lightweight as well as a high-stakes
flyweight tilt between Alexandre
Pantoja and Manel
Kape.
