Australian blended martial artist Steve Erceg and American flyweight Matt Schnell have a brand new date made official for his or her bout at UFC Combat Evening 238 aka UFC Vegas 87. MMA occasion airs dwell from UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Sunday, March 3 (AEDT).
The pair was initially scheduled to sq. off at UFC 295 final November in New York. The bout didn’t go forward after Schnell withdrew because of unknown purpose.
Erceg (11-1) fought at UFC 295 and defeated Alessandro Costa by unanimous choice. With the victory, the 28-year-old native of Perth, Western Australia made his third profitable Octagon look for 2023 and secured the tenth win in a row.
Schnell (16-7, 1 NC) of Amory, Mississippi hasn’t competed since late 2022, when he was KO’d by Matheus Nicolau within the second spherical. The 34-year-old’s most up-to-date win goes to July 2022, when he submitted Su Mudaerji in Spherical 2.
The promotion made the announcement by way of a submit on X. The principle occasion co-main occasion bouts are but to be set.
Amongst different bouts featured on the cardboard, Sydney’s Tyson Pedro (10-4) goes up towards unbeaten Brazilian Vitor Petrino (10-0) at gentle heavyweight.
With the addition of Erceg vs Schnell, the introduced record of UFC Vegas 87 bouts seems to be as the next:
Muhammad Mokaev vs. Alex Perez, flyweight
Eryk Anders vs. Jamie Pickett, middleweight
Ludovit Klein vs. Joel Alvarez, light-weight
Vinicius Oliveira vs. Yanis Ghemmouri, featherweight
Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs. Shamil Gaziev, heavyweight
Mohammad Yahya vs. Brendan Marotte, light-weight
Javid Basharat vs. Aiemann Zahabi, bantamweight
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady vs. Loik Radzhabov, light-weight
Josefine Lindgren Knutsson vs. Julia Polastri, ladies’s strawweight
Tyson Pedro vs. Vitor Petrino, gentle heavyweight
Matt Schnell vs. Steve Erceg, flyweight
