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The bout, pitting New Zealand-Australian blended martial artist Junior Tafa towards American heavyweight Karl Williams, is among the latest additions to UFC Combat Evening: Ribas vs Namajunas. The combat card aka “UFC Vegas 89” airs stay from UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Sunday, March 24 (AEDT).
Junior Tafa (5-1) is coming off the win by knockout within the first spherical towards Parker Porter final August in Singapore. In his UFC debut final April, the 27-year-old native of Avondale, New Zealand dropped a unanimous determination towards Mohammed Usman. Previous to that, Brisbane, Australia-based blended martial artist and former kickboxer received 4 MMA fights inside the space.
Karl Williams (9-1) is using a six-fight profitable streak. The 34-year-old Dana White’s Contender Collection alum was in motion final Might at UFC Charlotte, when he defeated Chase Sherman by unanimous determination. The St. Thomas, Virgin Islands native made his UFC debut final March, scoring a UD towards Lukasz Brzeski.
As reported by MMA Junkie, the promotion additionally introduced a middleweight bout between Edmen Shahbazyan (12-4) of Glendale, California and Dusko Todorovic (12-4) of Serbia. The change on the cardboard sees England’s Mick Parkin (8-0) changing Spanish Chris Barnett (23-8) within the heavyweight bout towards Mohammed Usman (10-2) of Nigeria.
In the principle occasion, former UFC girls’s strawweight champion Rose Namajunas (11-6) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin faces Amanda Ribas (13-4) of Brazil at flyweight. Within the co-main occasion, Billy Quarantillo (18-5) of Ransomville, New York takes on Gabriel Miranda (17-6) of Brazil at featherweight.
With the additions, the present UFC Vegas 89 lineup appears to be like as the next:
Amanda Ribas vs. Rose Namajunas, girls’s flyweight
Billy Quarantillo vs. Gabriel Miranda, featherweight
Mohammed Usman vs. Mick Parkin, heavyweight
Kurt Holobaugh vs. Trey Ogden, light-weight
Ricardo Ramos vs. Julian Erosa, featherweight
Davey Grant vs. Cody Gibson, bantamweight
Steven Nguyen vs. Jarno Errens, featherweight
Edmen Shahbazyan vs. Dusko Todorovic, middleweight
Luis Pajuelo vs. Fernando Padilla, featherweight
Karl Williams vs. Junior Tafa, heavyweight
Montserrat Rendon vs. Darya Zheleznyakova, girls’s bantamweight
Stephanie Luciano vs. Shauna Bannon, girls’s strawweight
