The UFC 277
card has undergone some shuffling, as both Diego
Ferreira and Mariya
Agapova have been forced to withdraw from their respective
bouts.
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Ferreira has pulled out of a proposed lightweight clash against
Drakkar
Klose due to an undisclosed injury. The promotion is currently
seeking a replacement opponent for Klose.
BJPenn.com was first to report Ferreira’s exit.
Ferreira went 0-3 in 2021, falling to ranked lightweights Beneil
Dariush, Gregor
Gillespie and Mateusz
Gamrot in succession. Prior to that skid, the Fortis MMA
product own six consecutive bouts in UFC competition from 2016 to
2020.
Klose has won four of his last five Octagon appearances. Most
recently, the 34-year-old Fight Ready representative scored a
second-round TKO of Brandon
Jenkins at UFC on ESPN 34.
Elsewhere on the UFC 277 bill, Joselyne
Edwards will replace Agapova and lock horns with Ji Yeon Kim
in a women’s flyweight bout.
MMAFighting.com reported the news, adding that Agapova withdrew
as a result of a knee injury.
Edwards snapped a two-bout skid in her last outing, earning a
unanimous verdict against Ramona
Pascual at UFC 275 to improve to 2-2 during her tenure with the
Las Vegas-based promotion.
Kim, meanwhile, is looking to end a three-bout losing streak. She
has competed once per year since 2020, coming up short against the
likes of Alexa
Grasso, Molly
McCann and Priscila
Cachoeira.
UFC 277 takes place on July 30 at American Airlines Arena in Dallas
and is headlined by a bantamweight championship rematch between
Julianna
Pena and Amanda
Nunes. In the co-main event, Brandon
Moreno and Kai Kara
France will vie for the interim flyweight title.