An injury has forced Danny Silva
to withdraw from a proposed featherweight clash against Dennis
Buzukja at UFC
on ESPN 62 this Saturday.
As a result, Francis
Marshall will step in on short notice to face Buzukja at the
event. The bout will now be contested at lightweight. The promotion
announced the change on Tuesday. UFC on ESPN 62 takes place at the
UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a middleweight showdown
pitting Jared
Cannonier against Caio
Borralho.
A competitor on
Dana White’s Contender Series in 2022, Marshall is 1-2 under
the
UFC banner. In his last outing, the 25-year-old suffered a
first-round technical knockout loss to Isaac
Dulgarian at UFC on ESPN 51 in August 2023.
Buzukja, meanwhile, snapped a two-fight skid in his most recent
Octagon appearance, when he scored a third-round stoppage of
Connor
Matthews at UFC on ESPN 54 on March 30.