This weekend’s UFC Vegas 87 card sees a pair of late replacements, as AJ Cunningham steps in on a brief discover to battle Ludovit Klein. The Dana White’s Contender Collection alumni replaces Joel Alvarez within the light-weight bout at UFC Combat Evening: Rozenstruik vs Gaziev. The MMA occasion airs dwell from UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Sunday, March 3 (AEDT).
I one other change, Bernardo Sopaj makes his UFC debut on a brief discover towards Vinicius Oliveira. The Sweden-based Albanian bantamweight replaces Yanis Ghemmouri.
After being stopped within the second spherical by Steven Nguyen at DWCS final September, AJ Cunningham (11-3) of the U.S. returned to the win column with the primary spherical TKO towards Justice Lamperez in late 2023.
Sopaj (11-2) gained his earlier bout in December 2023 by submission within the first spherical towards Geovane Vargas.
The modifications on the cardboard have been first reported by MMA Junkie.
The present UFC Vegas 87 lineup seems to be as the next:
Principal card
Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs. Shamil Gaziev, heavyweight
Vitor Petrino vs. Tyson Pedro, gentle heavyweight
Alex Perez vs. Muhammad Mokaev, flyweight
Eryk Anders vs. Jamie Pickett, middleweight
Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Bekzat Almakhan, bantamweight
Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Ricky Turcios, bantamweight
Matt Schnell vs. Steve Erceg, flyweight
Preliminary card
Aiemann Zahabi vs. Javid Basharat, bantamweight
Christian Leroy Duncan vs. Claudio Ribeiro, middleweight
Vinicius Oliveira vs. Bernardo Sopaj, bantamweight
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady vs. Loik Radzhabov, light-weight
AJ Cunningham vs. Ludovit Klein, light-weight
