Charles Oliveira and Arman Tsarukyan are placing all of it on the road at one of many 12 months’s largest reveals.
UFC CEO Dana White announced Sunday that Oliveira faces Tsarukyan in a light-weight bout at UFC 300 at T-Cell Area in Las Vegas. He added that the winner of the April 13 bout will develop into the No. 1 contender for champion Islam Makhachev, who White expects to return in the summertime after recovering from an harm.
Oliveira was initially set to battle Makhachev at UFC 294 this previous October, however a last-minute reduce suffered in coaching pressured him out of that most important occasion spot (he was subsequently changed by featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski, who misplaced to Makhachev through first-round knockout). “Do Bronx” first fought Makhachev at UFC 280 for a vacant light-weight title, which Makhachev received by submitting Oliveira within the second spherical.
In his most up-to-date outing this previous June, Oliveira scored a first-round TKO win over Beneil Dariush to earn a second crack at Makhachev. Now the previous champion has to beat an elite contender to regain that rematch alternative.
Tsarukyan seeks his personal rematch with Makhachev after shedding a hard-fought choice to the present champion in his debut 5 years in the past. Since that encounter, Tsarukyan has received eight of his previous 9 fights, together with finishes of Dariush, Joaquim Silva, and Joel Alvarez.
UFC 300 remains to be but to have an official headliner, with Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic, Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling, and Bo Nickal vs. Cody Brundage at the moment marketed for the occasion.
