twice this year, this time in Sydney as middleweight champion Israel Adesanya hopes to shield his belt against No. 5 positioned middleweight Sean Strickland. In the co-headliner, Sydney’s own Tai Tuivasa faces heavyweight Alexander Volkov.
Following an almost six-year break, the Octagon at last contacts down at Qudos Field this end of the week, as UFC 293 blows into town, featured by a middleweight title matchup between Israel Adesanya and Sean Strickland and supported by a hearty assortment of battles highlighting contenders from all through the Maritime locale.
Battle cards in Australia have generally been high-energy, profoundly engaging undertakings and this end of the week’s compensation per-view ought not be any unique.
Subsequent to recovering the middleweight lash in April, Israel Adesanya gets back to Australia to start his second rule on the division with a title guard against American competitor Sean Strickland.
At the point when it appeared as though things were taking a recognizable turn in Adesanya’s title rematch with Alex Pereira in April, the Nigerian-conceived hotshot turned the tables. Maneuvered into the wall and managing crashing leg kicks from his long-lasting opponent, Adesanya had the option to stop Pereira in this tracks with a right hand off the wall. The subsequent shot put the Brazilian on the material and instantly, “The Last Stylebender” was back on the UFC middleweight division.
At times “accessibility” is the best capacity, and Strickland’s continually being accessible surely had an impact in his arrival inverse Adesanya here. Not just has he posted a 7-2 record since getting back to activity somewhat less than a long time back, but on the other hand he’s bounced into short-notice and low-reward tasks two times this year, winning each to arise as a far-fetched, however hazardous, title challenger this end of the week.
Elaborately, this is a truly fascinating battle on paper on the grounds that while Adesanya has been condemned for leaving nothing to chance on occasion against a portion of his past rivals, Strickland and his strain based assault ought to compel the hero to connect consistently. Whether the challenger will be ready to send those strategies and stay upstanding for 25 minutes is not yet clear, however something lets me know this will be a more cutthroat, more exciting battle than some accept.
Heavyweights Tai Tuivasa and Alexander Volkov toss down in the co-headliner in Sydney, with each man hoping to lay out their balance in the steadily moving heavyweight scene.
Tuivasa made his special presentation the last time the UFC landed in Sydney, taking out Rashad Coulter. Presently, “Bam” hopes to break out of a two-battle slide and return to the structure that created five straight stoppage wins between his misfortunes to last end of the week’s main events, Serghei Spivac and Ciryl Gane.
Volkov has been near breaking into dispute on various events, just to neglect to clear the last obstacle. He shows up in Australia in apparently the best type of his UFC vocation, having enlisted sequential first-round stoppage prevails upon Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Alexandr Romanov to lift his record to 36-10 generally.
Kape has had different battles fall through year at different focuses along the way to the Octagon. Initially planned to confront Kai Kara-France here, the 29-year-old entertainer has won three straight and will inhale a moan of alleviation once he’s at long last ready to cause the walk and to feel the material under his feet on Saturday.
The 22-year-old dos Santos was booked to contend on Week 3 of Dana White’s Competitor Series (DWCS), yet when his rival neglected to step on the scale because of clinical issues, the battle was rejected and dos Santos was offered the chance to step in for Kara-France. This is an all-potential gain an open door for the Chute Boxe Diego Lima delegate, who conveys a 7-0 record into fight with Kape in Australia.
This can possibly be a truly entrancing battle in light of the fact that Kape has very little to acquire past adding a success to his resume, and dos Santos doesn’t have anything to lose by making a plunge into the profound finish of the flyweight ability pool. Following nine months away and various dropped sessions, you realize Kape needs to remind everybody that he’s a title danger, yet dos Santos comes from an extraordinary group and will be hoping to stir things up in his new environmental factors, realizing that a misfortune never really decreases his stock.