The ultimate UFC occasion of the 12 months goes down on the APEX facility in Las Vegas on December seventeenth, and will likely be headlined by a middleweight conflict between Sean Strickland and Jared Cannonier. Whereas that’s a high quality fundamental occasion, the promotion has sweetened the take care of an thrilling light-weight tilt between motion fighters Drew Dober and Bobby Inexperienced.
Dober simply posted to his Instagram account that he will likely be locking horns with the UFC veteran. He may need not have used many phrases on the announcement, however that’s okay. The 34-year-old is a person whose preventing model speaks louder than phrases.
The Elevation Battle Workforce expertise is using a two-fight profitable streak, made further particular by the truth that his final 5 wins have all ended with spectacular knockouts. As soon as often called a quantity striker, Dober is now feared as one of many division’s most harmful knockout artists.
36-year-old Bobby Inexperienced has been across the MMA scene for a minute or two (the person competed at Affliction 2 manner again in 2009—which simply so occurs to be the identical 12 months that Dober made his skilled MMA debut). Regardless of the expertise, consistency is one thing that has been plaguing Inexperienced. Since profitable three fights in a row again in 2020, the Pinnacle MMA fighter has gone on a lower than stellar run of 2-3. To be honest, he did drop bouts to top-flight competitors like Rafael Fiziev and Islam Makhachev, however Dober is a troublesome out to try to get again into the win column towards.
Alongside the top-ranked middleweight fundamental occasion UFC Vegas 66 is anticipated to characteristic a light-weight bout between Arman Tsarukyan & Damir Ismagulov, in addition to a flyweight bout between Brandon Royval & Amir Albazi, and a featherweight contest between Alex Caceres and Julian Erosa. Keep tuned to Bloody Elbow for extra information and notes as combat night time approaches.
