Walt Harris will compete for the primary time in over two years when he meets Josh Parisian at a UFC Combat Evening on July 15.
First reported by Marcel Dorff, the heavyweight bout between Harris and Parisian is the second confirmed bout for the July occasion after a girls’s bantamweight struggle between Ashlee Evans-Smith and Ailin Perez was beforehand introduced.
🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨The return of the Massive Ticket. Walt Harris takes on Josh Parisian at a UFC occasion on July fifteenth on a location TBA. pic.twitter.com/x3lRFYnXoR
— Marcel Dorff 🇳🇱🇮🇩 (@BigMarcel24) April 25, 2023
As of but there’s no confirmed location for the occasion, which can happen between UFC 290 in Las Vegas and the UFC’s return to London the next weekend.
Harris Will Look To Snap Shedding Streak Following Layoff
“The Massive Ticket” was final booked to face Tai Tuivasa at UFC 267 however was compelled to withdraw, and he’s presently on a three-fight shedding streak the place he’s been stopped in each struggle.
As tough as his present shedding skid could also be, Harris has confronted way more vital adversity outdoors of the cage throughout current years. His stepdaughter Aniah Blanchard went lacking in October of 2019 earlier than her stays have been discovered a number of weeks later, and final November her accused assassin was indicted on three capital homicide costs in Alabama.
Harris’ matchup with Alistair Overeem in 2020 was his first struggle following Blanchard’s loss of life, and that loss kicked off his present run of issue the place he was most lately stopped by Marcin Tybura in July of 2021.
A Contender Sequence veteran, Parisian hasn’t been in a position to set up any actual consistency within the UFC since becoming a member of the promotion in 2020. The 33-year-old has alternated wins and losses since his debut and is 2-3 within the UFC general, along with his most up-to-date look in February ending in a unanimous determination loss to Jamal Pogues.
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