Petr Yan confirmed he’s nonetheless very a lot among the many elite of the bantamweight division Saturday when he received each spherical of his UFC Battle Night time 248 principal occasion towards Deiveson Figueiredo.
After an ACL damage sidelined him for eight months, Yan (18-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) returned wanting as sharp as ever when he delivered a medical unanimous determination beating of fellow former UFC champ Figueiredo of their headlining bout at Galaxy Area in Macau, and now there’s requires him to struggle for the belt as soon as extra.
A kind of calls got here kind reigning 135-pound champion Merab Dvalishvili (18-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) himself, who once more pushed the already-named subsequent challenger Umar Nurmagomedov (18-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) to the wayside and pitched a rematch with Yan, who he defeated by lopsided determination in March 2023, for a rematch at UFC 313 on March 8 in Las Vegas.
Is there any probability Yan’s efficiency can leapfrog him over Nurmagomedov? That was a subject of dialogue on this week’s episode of “Spinning Again Clique” with panelists Mike Bohn, Nolan King and Dan Tom, who joined host “Attractive” George Garcia to debate the state of the bantamweight division.
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