No brainer! Jack Della Maddalena vs Bassil Hafez promoted to UFC Vegas 77 co-main event

UFC Vegas 77 has a brand new co-main occasion, regardless of one of the best efforts of that hungry snake.

Surging welterweight prospect Jack Della Maddalena collides with short-notice substitute Bassil Hafez on ESPN and ESPN+ this Sat. night time (July 15, 2024) at APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hafez takes over for not one, but two UFC 290 combatants who by no means made it to the cage.

Simply don’t anticipate “Badre” to roll over on command.

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TOP-RANKED BANTAMWEIGHT BATTLE! Final Combating Championship (UFC) returns dwelling to its APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sat., July 15, 2023, headlined by No. 3-seeded girls’s Bantamweight contender, Holly Holm, locking horns with No. 10-ranked Brazilian submission specialist, Mayra Bueno Silva. In UFC Vegas 77’s co-main occasion, Middleweight hopefuls, Albert Duraev and Junyong Park, look to steal the present, whereas Jack Della Maddalena hopes to reserve it on brief discover.

Don’t miss a single second of face-punching action!

“I do know that lots of people may doubt me, however doubt all you need,” Hafez instructed reporters on the UFC Vegas 77 media day (through MMA Junkie). “I’m displaying up on brief discover, I’m placing on a struggle and I’m going to stake my declare within the UFC. I’m a hard-working fighter, a gritty fighter. I all the time attempt to placed on a present for the followers and I all the time attempt to get the end, and never get completed. I take delight in that, that I’ve by no means been completed. My aim is to struggle Jack and beat Jack this Saturday, and show that I should be right here. I imagine I’m going to be the hardest opponent he’s fought but.”

Hafez, 31, improved to 8-3-1 with a knockout victory over Evan Cutts at Fury FC 75 earlier this yr. As for Maddalena, 26, his document improved to 14-2 with a first-round submission end towards Randy Brown at UFC 284 in Perth.

Maddalena is as excessive as -720 on a few of the sportsbooks.

MMAmania.com will ship LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow protection of the complete UFC Vegas 77 struggle card RIGHT HERE, beginning with the ESPN/ESPN+ preliminary card bouts at 7 p.m. ET, adopted by the ESPN/ESPN+ primary card begin time at 10 p.m. ET.

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