Whereas MMA‘s prime promotion, the UFC, might be off this week as a result of observance of the Thanksgiving vacation weekend inside the US, there’s been an adjustment made to subsequent weekend’s card, UFC 310. T-Cell Enviornment will play host to the Dec. 7 present, albeit with a change to the itinerary.
Initially, the early prelims have been slated to open with a heavyweight contest matching Tallison Teixeira (7-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Lukasz Brzeski (9-5-1, 1 NC MMA, 1-4 UFC) in what was imagined to have been the UFC debut for the previous. Teixeira appeared on the Sept. 17 episode of Dana White’s Contender Sequence, profitable a promotional contract from UFC CEO Dana White on the finish of the night.
Whereas Brzeski will nonetheless make the stroll one week from Saturday evening in Vegas, Wednesday, the UFC introduced a brand new opponent for him within the different nook.
Kennedy Nzechukwu to Kick Off UFC 310 Subsequent Weekend Towards Lukasz Brzeski
With Teixeira now off UFC 310 because of harm, Kennedy Nzechukwu (13-5 MMA, 7-5 UFC) a two-time veteran of Contender Sequence, securing his place on the promotion’s lively roster through the 2018 season of this system, will verse Lukasz Brzeski. At current, this battle is slated to be the primary battle on the early prelims.
As per the phrases on the contract, it’ll be a three-round battle at 5 minutes per spherical to start the night’s actions. Poland’s In The Cage broke the information of the change within the bout order earlier Wednesday.
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Jak podają nasze źródła, nowym rywalem Łukasza Brzeskiego po wypadnięciu Tallisona Teixeiry będzie Kennedy Nzechukwu (13-5).Termin walki bez zmian: 7 grudnia #UFC310
Nowy rywal bije się dla UFC od 2019 r., a trafił tu z programu DWCS po tym, jak znokautował… pic.twitter.com/pr3CPj4uDH
— InTheCage.pl (@InTheCagePL) November 21, 2024
Different Alterations to UFC 310
Subsequent to the announcement of Nzechukwu getting into UFC 310 on 10 days’ discover to exchange Teixeira, the UFC additionally revealed that subsequent weekend’s heavyweight bout pitting Martin Buday (14-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC), a veteran of Oktagon MMA within the Czech Republic, in opposition to 16-fight veteran Rizvan Kuniev (13-2-1, 1 NC MMA, 0-0 UFC), himself a two-time veteran of Contender Sequence, would not be going forward as a result of former sustaining an harm. No short-notice opponent for Kuniev was sought forward of Buday’s withdrawal from subsequent weekend’s card.
As well as, the co-featured prelim for UFC 310 will now be a welterweight contest that includes Vicente Luque (22-10-1 MMA, 15-6 UFC) and Themba Gorimbo (14-4 MMA, 4-1 UFC). The latter is substituting for Nick Diaz (26-10, 2 NC MMA, 7-7, 2 NC UFC), who’s unable to make the stroll because of harm.
Kennedy Nzechukwu Dealing with A Fast Turnaround Forward of UFC 310 Subsequent Saturday
Heading into this short-notice bout, Kennedy Nzechukwu has posted a report of 3-2 in his final 5 contests relationship again to November of 2022. Again on Oct. 26, he snapped his two-fight dropping streak by means of first-round knockout in opposition to Chris Barnett (23-9 MMA, 2-3 UFC) because of strikes through the UFC 308 prelims from Etihad Enviornment in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
By the point the cage door closes on Dec. 7, Nzechukwu can have solely had 42 days between contests. How will the quick hiatus of six weeks play into Kennedy Nzechukwu’s gameplan for his battle in opposition to Lukasz Brzeski subsequent weekend?
Brzeski Trying to Finish 2024 on Excessive Be aware
Within the different nook, Lukas Brzeski will enter the new-look prelim to start UFC 310 having gone 1-4 over his first 5 fights within the promotion. Again in July of this yr throughout UFC 304’s undercard from Co-op Stay in Manchester, he sustained a first-round knockout loss (punches) to Mick Parkin (10-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) within the second prelim of the night.
Brzeski hasn’t had a sustained unbeaten streak in MMA since he went 7-0-1 with one no-contest between September of 2018 and September of 2021. That no-contest occurred on his Contender Sequence look versus Dylan Potter throughout season 5 of this system.
Lukasz Brzeski was initially introduced because the winner of the bout in opposition to Potter by way of third-round submission because of a rear-naked choke, solely to see the end result retroactively modified to a no-contest within the wake of his constructive drug check. Since then, he’s solely gotten his hand raised in victory as soon as, earlier this yr on April 6 over Valter Walker (12-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) within the latter’s UFC promotional debut.
