Directly following UFC 299, the activity shifts back to the Summit for a battle card featured by Top 15 heavyweights Tai Tuivasa and Marcin Tybura.
With the overflow of marquee names that contended last end of the week in Miami and that are booked to make the stroll one month from now at UFC 300, occasions like this end of the week's battle card give an open door to "unnoticed" competitors to step into the Octagon and utilize this open door catch the consideration of the crowd when everyone is focused on them.
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In front of Saturday's battle card, we feature three contenders across three divisions that show up in Las Vegas on series of wins, with plans on adding to their ongoing accomplishment with articulation endeavors. Focus on these three since you could be hearing more from them in the extremely not so distant future.
Bryan Battle
The middleweight competition champ on Season 29 of A definitive Contender, Fight posted an extra win in the 185-pound positions against the man he was initially booked to look in the finale, Tresean Carnage, prior to leaving for the welterweight positions.
Since landing at 170 pounds, the North Carolina local has gone 3-1, acquiring stoppages in every one of his triumphs while doing combating to the horn against the perilous Rinat Fakhretdinov in his solitary difficulty. All the more significantly, he answered that loss with a couple of great victories, dropping Gabe Green in 14 seconds at home in Charlotte prior to gathering a back exposed stifle prevail upon AJ Fletcher last break.
During his experience on TUF, Fight offered a profile like one more late pick that won the opposition at middleweight prior to dropping down to welterweight, Kelvin Gastleum, exhibiting areas of strength for an of abilities and capacities, yet additionally a lot of space to develop as he proceeds to develop, and, up to this point, he's in good shape.
Saturday's matching with Ange Loosa is one more key test for "The Butcher" — a matchup against a dangerous, reduced welterweight enjoying some real success off continuous triumphs and hoping to continue pushing ahead while stopping his rival's climb. He conveys large power and tosses smoke, and we have seen Fight get cut once or twice, which makes some extra interest here.
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Fight is in a fascinating position, in light of the fact that the welterweight division is very profound, which bears the cost of him the valuable chance to continue advancing in his advancement without getting tossed into the fire. A third consecutive success and fourth triumph in five beginnings at this weight would unquestionably justify a move forward from now on, so it will be fascinating to perceive the amount he's advanced since September and what that creates this end of the week.
Mike Davis
The profundity of the lightweight division permits skilled contenders to exist behind the scenes notwithstanding steady accomplishment inside the Octagon, and when you blend in rare appearances, a competitor can slide much further back to where some could neglect to focus on them completely.
Be that as it may, it would be an error to not give close consideration to Davis this end of the week and proceeding.
The 31-year-old Dana White's Competitor Series (DWCS) alum lost his short-notice special introduction to Gilbert Consumes, however has posted three back to back triumphs since, halting Thomas Gifford prior to accumulating consistent choice successes over Bricklayer Jones and Viacheslav Borshchev. What keeps "Monster Kid" a little inconspicuous inside the division, notwithstanding, is the way that those three battles have gone over the most recent four years, with his latest excursion coming in October 2022.
On the off chance that how you looked getting off the transport or remaining on the scale decided your remaining in the division, the Floridian would be in title dispute. Davis is an actual example for the 155-pound weight class, standing six feet tall with a long reach, demonstrated power, and speed in his grasp, all of which makes him a charming figure going ahead.
Saturday night, Davis goes head to head with DWCS graduate Natan Duty, who enters off successive wins and wielding a 8-1 record by and large. The Organization MMA agent dropped his special presentation, similar to Davis, yet posted choice triumphs in every one of his last two excursions, most as of late out-working individual Competitor Series graduate Genaro Valdez in December 2022.
Elaborately, this feels like a chance for Davis to sparkle possibly.
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He's confronted more experienced rivalry hitherto in his UFC excursion and, surprisingly, in his DWCS appearance, where he lost to Top 15 featherweight Sodiq Yusuff, with the variety of his game and speed of his hands remaining as potential separation focuses.
It's been a moment since Davis passed the boundary into the Octagon, yet it shouldn't take long for fans and intellectuals to recall why he's one to watch when he does so this end of the week at the UFC Summit.
Christian Rodriguez
Last year was a breakout crusade for Rodriguez, yet one that didn't come without certain lows, too.
The 26-year-old ability posted a couple of noteworthy triumphs over individual possibilities, wrecking Raul Rosas Jr. at UFC 287 in Miami prior to turning around Cameron Saaiman in October. In the two occurrences, he gave his adversaries their most memorable vocation routs, however he likewise missed load in front of each challenge, which took a portion of the sparkle off his generally heavenly exhibitions.
Rodriguez procured a success on Dana White's Competitor Series in 2021, yet neglected to get an agreement, just to make a big appearance in the UFC without prior warning, a division four months after the fact. While he lost to Jonathan Pearce, the Roufusport item dazzled, sticking it out all through prior to taking the battle to Pearce in the last round. Unbeaten in his last three since that presentation, he gets back to the featherweight division on Saturday for a conflict with a third consecutive unbeaten possibility.
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This weekend, Rodriguez goes head to head with Isaac Dulgarian, a 6-0 confident falling off a first-round stoppage prevail upon Francis Marshall in his most memorable UFC start. Between his beginner run and his genius profession so far, the 27-year-old "Midwest Choppa" has never lost and never been out of the principal round, which presents both a test and a chance for Rodriguez.
He's been here in every one of his last two trips, going head to head with unbeaten arising gifts hoping to progress to his detriment and, each time, his unrivaled abilities radiated through. Assuming he's ready to climate the early tempest that makes certain to come from Dulgarian to begin, there is space for Rodriguez to rest on his experience, rest on how much time he's logged inside the Octagon, and safeguard his series of wins.
