Nick Diaz vs Vicente Luque postponed
Former WEC and Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz received’t be making his return to the octagon this summer season as anticipated.
Diaz’ scheduled bout with no. 13 ranked Vicente Luque, which was anticipated to happen on August 3, 2024, at UFC on ABC 7 in Abu Dhabi, has been postponed, the UFC citing “journey points” as the rationale for the postponement.
The information broke earlier tonight throughout UFC Vegas 94, and it’s unclear which fighter was having points getting into the Center East.
This was to be Diaz’ first battle in three years, since September of 2021 when he misplaced his rematch to former UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler, and simply his second battle in practically 10 years, his authentic exit bout being towards former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva in January of 2015.
Diaz vs Luque was additionally anticipated to function the occasions co-main occasion to Cory Sandhagen vs Umar Nurmagomedov.
As an alternative, the UFC has booked a brand new co-main occasion between a pair harmful of European strikes in Russia’s Shara Magomedov and Poland’s Michal Oleksiejczuk.
Magomedov comes into the bout undefeated at 13-0 with 11 knockouts, two of these wins coming within the UFC. Oleksiejczuk however, although has misplaced just a few instances at 19-8, hasn’t misplaced a stand-up battle but.
Oleksiejczuk boasts seven wins contained in the octagon with six knockouts, his most up-to-date coming over 12-1-1 kickboxer Chidi Njokuani, together with 14 knockouts in his 19 complete wins.
Of Oleksiejczuk’s eight profession defeats, six come through submission; we received’t expect any grappling between these two subsequent month.
Who wins this battle of strikers taking place at UFC on ABC 7?
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