A featherweight showdown pitting Diego Lopes
against Sodiq
Yusuff has been added to the UFC
300 lineup.
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Lopes confirmed the booking on social media following an initial
report from Freak MMA. UFC 300 takes place on April 13 at
the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and will see Justin
Gaethje defend his “BMF” belt against Max
Holloway in a featured lightweight bout. Additionally, Weili Zhang
will lock horns with Xiaonan Yan
in a strawweight championship tilt.
After giving Movsar
Evloev a tougher-than-expected test in his short-notice Octagon
debut at UFC 288, Lopes emerged as a person of interest at 145
pounds thanks to back-to-back first-round finishes of Gavin
Tucker and Pat
Sabatini. The 29-year-old Brazilian owns a 23-6 career mark
with 21 victories coming inside the distance.
Yusuff is coming off a unanimous decision defeat to Edson
Barboza in the UFC Fight Night 230 headliner this past October.
Prior to that, the
Dana White’s Contender Series alum had been victorious in six
of his first seven promotional appearances.