A potential middleweight barnburner has been added to an Ultimate Fighting Championship card set in
China this December.
Per Jun Yong
Park’s (17-5) management team of First Round
Management on Thursday, Park and Andre Muniz
(23-6) will collide at the UFC’s return
event to Shanghai on Dec. 9. The middleweights will meet,
presumably inside of the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in what will be the
promotion’s first show in China in four years. The matchup has
since been confirmed by
other outlets.
Currently the UFC’s 14th-ranked competitor at 185 pounds, Muniz
started his career with the organization by amassing a five-fight
win streak which included three armbars. However, the Brazilian has
since been on a rough patch, suffering a pair of stoppage losses to
Brendan
Allen and Paul Craig
this year. While “Sergipano” maintains a finish rate of 83%,
however, he has never heard the final bell in defeat.
South Korea’s Park will look to enter the middleweight rankings by
adding to his already impressive win streak of four straight. Park
has rattled off three straight submissions over Joseph
Holmes, Denis
Tiuliulin and Albert
Duraev in the last 11 months, all via rear-naked choke. Like
his upcoming opponent, Park’s only losses in the Octagon thus far
are via stoppage, as Anthony
Hernandez tapped him with an anaconda choke and Gregory
Rodrigues punched him out in 2019 and 2021, respectively.