Slovakian warrior Martin Buday will tackle the legendary Belarusian Arlovski at UFC 303, the place Pereira will face a walk-on in the principle title rematch!
29.6.2024 – T-mobile enviornment, Las Vegas, USA
UFC 303
Welterweight
Martin Buday 🇸🇰🆚🇧🇾 Andrei Arlovski
Dwell broadcast on Nova Sport 6
The 32-year-old Slovak fighter Martin “Badys” Buday earned a contract on Dana White’s Contender Collection in 2021 when he stopped the American fighter Lorenzo Hood by technical knockout within the first spherical. His debut within the UFC group awaited him in April of the next yr, when he was capable of rating the American Chris Barnett and declare his first ever victory in essentially the most prestigious MMA group on the planet. Nonetheless, he was near being disqualified.
He subsequently confronted the Pole Lukasz Brzeski within the second duel in August. The complete match this time passed off in a stance and was very balanced. In the long run, the duel got here to some extent decision, by which two judges sided with the Slovak and he claimed his second win within the UFC.
Final yr, Buday confronted the cage a complete of 3 times. He was within the place of winner twice, when he first pushed the American fighter Jake Collier on factors in April after which completed Josh Parisian within the first spherical in August. This duel despatched the Slovak fighter into the highest fifteen heavyweights.
Then got here one other nice information from the crew of essentially the most profitable Slovak within the UFC, and “Badys” signed a brand new contract with the UFC and challenged the undefeated Dagestani Shamil Gaziev on the intently watched UFC 296 in December. Nonetheless, Buday couldn’t deal with the match this time and misplaced within the second spherical by TKO, which was a defeat for the Slovak fighter after six lengthy years.
Now he has his first problem of the yr forward of him, and his opponent would be the now legendary 45-year-old Belarusian wrestler Andrei Arlovski. Belarus has been lively within the skilled MMA surroundings since 1999. Nonetheless, lately and as a result of his age, he not credit himself with success and at the moment has 3 defeats in a row. The final time he misplaced on factors was in January of this yr, when he was not ok towards the American Waldo Cortes-Acosta.
The bout was initially scheduled to happen in mid-June, however Dana White finally rescheduled it for the highly-anticipated UFC 303 occasion. Nonetheless, even that occasion shouldn’t be with out change, as former two-weight champion Conor McGregor was injured and the principle title struggle of the event as an alternative the reigning mild heavyweight champion Alex Pereira will deal with the rematch, who will once more be challenged by the Czech samurai Jiří “BJP” Procházka.
