Official!
Birmingham’s Tom Breese is going to kick off 2021 against Omari
Akhmedov on Jan 16! pic.twitter.com/P4iIgedkIK— UFC Europe (@UFCEurope)
December 7, 2020
Omari
Akhmedov will lock horns with Tom Breese in
a middleweight bout at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event on
Jan. 16.
The Las Vegas-based promotion announced the booking via social
media on Monday. A location for the event has not been formally
announced but it is expected to take place at the Flash Forum on
Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. The card is headlined by a featherweight
scrap pitting Max
Holloway against Calvin
Kattar.
Akhmedov, 33, had a six-bout unbeaten streak snapped in his last
outing, when he dropped a unanimous decision to Chris
Weidman at UFC Fight Night 174 on Aug. 8. The Dagestani known
as “Wolverine” is 8-4-1 during his promotional tenure and 20-5-1 as
a professional overall.
Breese, meanwhile, has alternated wins and losses in his last four
Octagon appearances. Most recently, th 29-year-old Birmingham
England native scored a first-round TKO of K.B. Bhullar
at UFC Fight Night 179 on Oct. 10. Breese began his UFC career at
welterweight, going 3-1 before moving up to 185 pounds.