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Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight Ricardo
Ramos only needed a month for his turnaround after losing a
fight in March.
MMA Junkie was first to report the booking of Ramos (14-3)
against Bill Algeo
(14-5) at
UFC on ESPN 22. The April 17 event is expected to be held in
the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, as the last fight card before the
promotion travels to Florida to put fans in the building again. The
pairing has since been confirmed by
other outlets along with Algeo himself on his Twitter page.
Ramos was originally slated to face Zubaira
Tukhugov at UFC Fight Night 187 in March, only for Tukhugov to
suffer an injury and fall out of the bout roughly a week before the
match. “Carcarinha” will be looking to notch his first win this
decade, as the Brazilian suffered a knockout loss at the hands of
Lerone
Murphy in 2020. The loss snapped a two-fight win streak where
he recorded a decision over Journey
Newson and then tapped out Luiz
Eduardo Garagorri. In the latter, Ramos handed Garagorri his
first career defeat.
A Cage Fury Fighting Championships and Ring of Combat vet, Pennsylvania’s Algeo aimed for the
major stage on the third season of Dana White’s Contender Series. There, “Senor
Perfecto” was grinded out in a performance from Brendan
Loughnane that drew derision from UFC President Dana White.
Algeo bounced back with another win in CFFC to get a callup to the
major league, where he came in as a replacement for Ricardo
Lamas and took the fight to the ex-title challenger. Although
he suffered a loss, he rebounded with a win over Spike
Carlyle in November to propel him into this match with the
Brazilian.
UFC on ESPN 22 goes down on April 17 presumably at the UFC Apex in
Las Vegas. Capping off the card is a long-awaited middleweight tilt
pitting “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 29 coaches Robert
Whittaker against Kelvin
Gastelum. Additional main card thrillers include a lightweight
brawl between Jeremy
Stephens and Drakkar
Klose, while Alexander
Romanov takes on Juan Espino
at heavyweight.
