Rafael
Fiziev and Justin
Gaethje are going to run it again.
Fiziev will change the injured Dan Hooker
and face Gaethje within the light-weight co-main occasion at UFC 313.
Whereas Hooker vs. Gaethje was slated for 5 rounds, the brand new
reserving is scheduled for 3. The promotion introduced the bout on
Wednesday.
UFC 313 takes place on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas on March 8
and is headlined by a light-weight heavyweight championship conflict between
Alex
Pereira and Magomed
Ankalaev.
Fiziev dropped a majority resolution to Gaethje of their first
assembly at UFC 286 in March 2023. In his subsequent outing, “Ataman”
suffered a knee damage in a TKO loss towards Mateusz
Gamrot at UFC Struggle Night time 228 in September 2023. The
31-year-old Kazakhstan native, who received six of his first seven
Octagon appearances, has been sidelined since then.
Gaethje, in the meantime, is coming off a fifth-round knockout loss to
Max
Holloway in a BMF title bout at UFC 300. The 2-time
light-weight title challenger owns different notable victories over the
likes of Dustin
Poirier, Michael
Chandler, Tony
Ferguson, Donald
Cerrone and Edson
Barboza, to call a couple of.
