UFC 298 took a slight hit yesterday when the promotion determined to maneuver a heavyweight bout between no. 9 ranked Tai Tuivasa (14-6) and no. 10 ranked Marcin Tybura (24-8) from the occasion.
Fortunately for themselves and us followers nonetheless, the match up remains to be intact, and can now function the UFC Combat Evening 239 foremost occasion.
UFC FN 239 is to go down one month following UFC 298 on March 16, 2024, dwell from the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada.
Tuivasa has hit a little bit of a tough patch as of late, shedding his final three-straight following a five-fight knockout streak from 2020 to 2022. This isn’t the primary time he’s misplaced three-straight, nonetheless.
Coming over to the UFC because the one-time defending AFC heavyweight champion with an ideal document of 6-0 (six knockouts), Tuivasa would win his first three-straight bouts contained in the promotion with victories over Rashad Coulter (KO), Cyril Asker (TKO), and former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski (UD).
This led as much as him dropping his subsequent three-straight to the likes of former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos (TKO), former WSOF heavyweight champion Blagoy Ivanov (UD), and present no. 8 ranked former WWFC heavyweight champion Serghei Spivac (arm-triangle choke).
Tuivasa then started to take his coaching extra significantly, coaching full time for the primary time in his life, the place he noticed instantaneous success with five-straight wins towards Stefan Struve (KO), Harry Hunsucker (TKO), Greg Hardy (KO), Augusto Sakai (KO), and former LFC heavyweight champion, former UFC heavyweight title challenger, and the person with probably the most knockouts in UFC historical past, Derrick Lewis (KO).
Tuivasa has nonetheless, as talked about above, gone on a current skid, struggling defeats to no. 2 ranked Ciryl Gane (KO) of their interim title bout, no. 3 ranked former FNG heavyweight champion Sergei Pavlovich (TKO), and no. 6 ranked former Bellator & M-1 International heavyweight champion Alexander Volkov (Ezekiel choke).
Marcin Tybura was additionally a title holder previous to becoming a member of the UFC, coming over as a 13-1, two-time defending M-1 Problem heavyweight champion. Tyrbua would lose his promotional debut to Timothy Johnson (UD) earlier than rattling off three-straight victories towards Viktor Pesta (KO), Luis Henrique (TKO), and Andrei Arlovski (UD).
Tybura then went 1-4 over his subsequent 5 outings, shedding to former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum (UD) and Derrick Lewis (KO), defeating Stefan Struve (UD), and shedding to Shamil Abdurakhimov (TKO), in addition to Augusto Sakai (KO).
The Polish contender caught his stride quickly after nonetheless, successful his subsequent five-straight over the likes of Serghei Spivac (UD), former AFC light-heavyweight champion Maxim Grishin (UD), Ben Rothwell (UD), Greg Hardy (TKO), and Walt Harris (TKO), earlier than shedding to Alexander Volkov (UD).
Tybura would change into the primary man to defeat the 16-0 former EFC heavyweight champion Alexander Romanov (MD) in his subsequent outing, earlier than additionally defeating Blagoy Ivanov, making him 7-1 in his final eight on the time earlier than shedding his most up-to-date contest to present interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall (TKO) this previous July.
As you see, these two have a wealth of widespread opponents on their resumes; every have overwhelmed the identical males, every have misplaced to the identical males, and every have defeated opponents the opposite has misplaced to.
Does Tybura make it to 8-2 in his final 10 and hand Tuivasa his fourth-straight defeat, or does Tuivasa choose up his first win in two years and snap his shedding skid?
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