Azamat Murzakanov closed the show with a
massive right hand
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ESPN app. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is eager to plug
in Dana White’s Contender Series signees as soon
as possible. On the second week of DWCS for the 2021 season, the broadcast
announced that Week 1 winner Azamat
Murzakanov (10-0) already had his promotional debut lined up.
On Nov.
20 at an unnumbered UFC Fight Night event, he will take on
Marcin
Prachnio (15-5) at light heavyweight. The two will likely
tangle inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Murzakanov made a statement in the top-billed bout of his DWCS
episode, drilling Matheus
Scheffel with a solid left and a ruthless right hand to put the
Brazilian down for the count. The win propelled “The Professional”
to a perfect 10 wins without a defeat, with a finish rate of 80
percent. Before joining the major stage, Murzakanov racked up wins
over impressive names like the surging Andre Muniz
and UFC vet-turned-kickboxer Guto
Inocente on his way up.
Prachnio, who came to the company off of four wins under the
One Championship banner, fell short by
first-round knockout to Sam Alvey,
Magomed
Ankalaev and Mike
Rodriguez in his first three UFC bouts. A fourth shot inside
the Octagon was granted to the Polish fighter, who took advantage
of the situation by taking a decision over Khalil
Rountree in January. A body kick knockout over Isaac
Villanueva in June placed the 33-year-old on his first win
streak since 2017.
There is no headliner currently set for the UFC Fight Night card on
Nov. 20, but it is expected to take place in the UFC Apex in Las
Vegas. A pair of ranked bouts sit on the main card, including a
welterweight battle between submission specialist Michael
Chiesa and the unbeaten Sean Brady,
as well as a possible women’s flyweight title eliminator matchup
pitting Joanne
Calderwood against Alexa
Grasso.
