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your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the
ESPN app. Two Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweights
with their eyes on the prize will come to blows in October.
MMA Fighting first announced on Wednesday that Alexander
Volkov (33-9) will be squaring off with Marcin
Tybura (22-6) on
UFC 267. This Oct. 30 card will likely be held inside the
Etihad Arena on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Tybura confirmed the pairing on his Instagram on
Thursday.
Russia’s Volkov had a two-fight knockout victory streak crumble at
the hands of Ciryl Gane
in June, when he came up short and lost a unanimous decision.
Before then, he put Walt Harris
and Alistair
Overeem away, both in the second round. “Drago” charged into
the UFC and strung together a four-fight win streak, with a
knockout of Fabricio
Werdum to thrust him into a title eliminator with Derrick
Lewis. Volkov celebrates a finish rate of 76 percent in a
career that began in 2009.
Tybura, out of Poland, is currently riding the longest win streak
of his own career since he started off at 12-0. Along the way,
Tybura has defeated the likes of Sergey
Spivak, Ben Rothwell
and Harris, with his most recent win a knockout of Harris in June
to make it five in a row. “Tybur” posts a stoppage rate lower than
his foe’s at 68 percent, but it is one that has lifted due to
recent performances.
UFC 267 goes down on “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates, on Oct. 30. The twin-title tour will conclude with a
light heavyweight championship rumble between Jan
Blachowicz and Glover
Teixeira, while the co-main event comes in a bantamweight
rematch between champ Aljamain
Sterling and ex-titleholder Petr Yan. A
pivotal lightweight encounter will also serve on the main card as
Islam
Makhachev makes a run up the ladder against Rafael dos
Anjos.
