R. Yahya comes from defeat (Photo: Reproduction/Facebook/Rani Yaya)
The bantamweight Rani Yaya He already has a date set to return to the Octagon. And the Brazilian's return to Ultimate will happen in less than a month: he will face Henry Briones in the UFC Mexico, which takes place on August 5th in Mexico City. The information is from the Mexican website “Indiscutidos”. Yahya will try to get back into the win column after having his positive streak of four fights interrupted at UFC Fortaleza in March this year, when he was defeated by Joe Soto in a unanimous decision by the judges.
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The Brasilia native had beaten Johnny Bedford, Masanori Kanehara, Matthew López and Michinori Tanaka before being defeated by Soto. His professional record is 23 wins, nine losses and one fight without result. Henry Briones, on the other hand, comes from two consecutive defeats in the UFC – first he was overcome by the current bantamweight champion, cody garbrandt, in 2015; and his last setback was against fellow Brazilian Douglas D'Silva, in November last year in Ultimate's last foray into the Latin country.
The main fight of UFC Mexico will pit two great flyweight talents against each other, with the Mexican Brandon Moreno, revealed in the 24th season of The Ultimate Fighter, facing Sergio Pettis, younger brother of the former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis. The second most important duel of the night will have another revelation in action: the strawweight Alexa grasso will try to recover from the first defeat of his career, to Felice herrig, when facing Randa markos. Former light heavyweight champion, Rashad evans will have his second middleweight fight against Sam alvey.
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