Onetime 'TUF' hopeful Kevin Nowaczyk, Kamaru Usman's brother among Victory FC 60 additions

Victory FC will touch down just outside Chicago next month, and there are some solid names at the top of the bill.

In the Victory FC 60 main event, Kevin Nowaczyk (19-3) will take on Andrew Kapel (11-6) in a bout between former Hoosier Fight Club champions. In the co-feature, Mohammed Usman (3-0), the younger brother of UFC welterweight standout Kamaru Usman, will take on Don'Tale Mayes (3-2) at heavyweight.

Hoosier Fight Club and Victory FC, both Alliance MMA promotions, will put on the event at The Venue at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind., near Chicago on April 14. The card will stream on UFC Fight Pass.

Kapel is a former Hoosier Fight Club middleweight champion. He has won three of his past four fights, all by stoppage. All 11 of the 32-year-old’s career wins are by finish with eight submissions.

Nowaczyk is a Hoosier Fight Club fixture and a former welterweight champ with the promotion. He has seven straight wins, all under that promotion’s banner. He had a shot at Season 16 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” but was knocked out by Dom Waters 32 seconds into their fight to get into the house. (Coincidentally, a former opponent of his, Neil Magny, made it onto the show and into the UFC.) But since his loss to Magny at Hoosier Fight Club 7 nearly seven years ago, he has gone 11-2.

Usman had his first three pro bouts, all in 2017, under the Tachi Palace Fights banner. He won all three by first-round stoppage. The former standout high school wrestler played NCAA football at Arizona and the University of Houston. Mayes has fought for Hoosier Fight Club, RFA and LFA. But most recently, he had a UFC shot against Allen Crowder on Dana White’s Contender Series 8 this past August. He lost by TKO, and Crowder went on to get a UFC deal.

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