UFC’s yet-to-be-announced Struggle Evening occasion in Rio de Janeiro has one other battle lined up for Oct. 11, as Vitor Petrino takes on Thomas Petersen in Brazil. A number of folks with information of the scenario confirmed the pairing with MMA Combating.
The match-up joins Jhonata Diniz vs. Mario Pinto, first reported by MMA Combating for the corporate’s return to Cidade Maravilhosa. The promotion has but to disclose which fighters will headline the cardboard.
Petersen (10-3) is a former LFA heavyweight champion who joined the UFC after tapping out Chandler Cole at Dana White’s Contender Collection in August 2023. The 30-year-old has a 80 p.c ending charge in his MMA wins, however went the space in each UFC victories, a pair of choices over Mohammed Usman and Don’Story Mayes.
Petrino (12-2) made quick work of Austen Lane in his heavyweight debut this previous weekend in Nashville, rebounding from consecutive 205-pound defeats to Anthony Smith and Dustin Jacoby with a first-round rear-naked choke end. He now holds a UFC report of 5-2.
Talking with MMA Combating after the UFC Nashville win, Petrino volunteered to preventing as quickly as potential now that he didn’t have to fret about reducing all the way down to mild heavyweight.
“That is my eighth battle in lower than three years and I need to preserve that tempo at heavyweight,” Petrino stated earlier this week. “If a battle reveals up tomorrow, simply put the shorts again on and get within the octagon [laughs]. I positively need to battle a couple of times extra this 12 months. The benefit of being a heavyweight is that we could be supplied a battle at any given second.”
Mike Heck contributed to this report.
