A.J. Dobson and Tafon Nchukwi have agreed to satisfy in a middleweight bout on the upcoming UFC Battle Evening card scheduled on Aug. 12 on the UFC APEX in Las Vegas.
A number of folks with information of the promotion’s plans confirmed the information to MMA Preventing on Tuesday with bout agreements already issued for the combat.
Coaching beneath UFC knockout king Matt Brown at his health club in Columbus, Ohio, Dobson joined the UFC roster following a first-round submission win on Dana White’s Contender Sequence again in 2021. Sadly, he hasn’t discovered the identical stage of success within the octagon after dropping back-to-back fights with unanimous choice losses to Jacob Malkoun and Armen Petrosyan.
Dobson seems to get again on monitor by going through a fighter in an analogous state of affairs as Nchukwi, who additionally makes an attempt to return to the win column after he additionally suffered two losses in a row.
Most just lately, Nchukwi suffered a first-round knockout loss to Carlos Ulberg at gentle heavyweight, however now he’ll make his return to the middleweight division, which is the place he spent his first two fights within the promotion after he was additionally signed from The Contender Sequence.
General, Nchukwi sports activities a 2-3 report within the UFC together with wins over Jamie Pickett and Mike Rodriguez.
The middleweight combat between Dobson and Nchukwi joins a rising lineup on Aug. 12 with welterweights Rafael dos Anjos and Vicente Luque serving as the principle occasion.
Mike Heck contributed to this report.
