Next month’s UFC Fight Night 109 lineup in Sweden is set with 13 bouts.
Officials today announced the final addition to the lineup: welterweights Omari Akhmedov (16-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC). Dutch site madna.nl first reported the matchup.
UFC Fight Night 109 takes place May 28 at Ericsson Globe in Stockholm. The card airs on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.
Although the lineup was mostly set on UFC.com, officials recently told MMAjunkie one main-card addition was still to come. It’s not clear if Akhmedov vs. Alhassan is that addition – or if one the scheduled prelims instead will be promoted to the main-card spot.
Akhmedov, a 29-year-old Dagestani fighter, recently halted a two-fight skid and moved his UFC record above .500 with a unanimous-decision win over vet Kyle Noke, who then announced his retirement, in November. A bout prior, the former middleweight picked up his second career “Fight of the Night” bonus in a losing effort against Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos.
He now meets Alhassan, a 31-year-old Ghanaian fighter who previously competed with organizations such as Bellator and Legacy FC. In his UFC debut, he scored a 53-second knockout win over Charlie Ward at UFC Fight Night 99 and picked up a “Performance of the Night” bonus. He now has seven first-round knockouts in seven career wins.
In UFC Fight Night 109’s headliner, former title challenger Alexander Gustafsson (17-4 MMA, 9-4 UFC) and Glover Teixeira (26-5 MMA, 9-3 UFC), who’s No. 6 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA light-heavyweight rankings. takes on No. 5 Glover Teixeira (26-5 MMA, 9-3 UFC).
Rounding out the main card are No. 9 light heavyweight Misha Cirkunov (13-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC) vs. Volkan Oezdemir (13-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC), welterweight vet Ben Saunders (21-7-2 MMA, 8-4 UFC) vs. Peter Sobotta (16-5-1 MMA, 3-4 UFC), 170-pounders Emil Meek (9-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) vs. Nordine Taleb (12-4 MMA, 4-2 UFC), and middleweights Jack Hermansson (14-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) vs. Alex Nicholson (7-3 MMA, 1-2 UFC).
The full UFC Fight Night 109 lineup includes:
MAIN CARD (FS1, 1 p.m. ET)
PRELIMINARY CARD (FS1, 11 a.m. ET)
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 9:30 a.m. ET)
For more on UFC Fight Night 109, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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