A welterweight matchup has been included to the UFC’s Nov. 28 fight card.
Multiple people today with know-how of the promotion’s designs verified to MMA Battling that a bout concerning Takashi Sato and Miguel Baeza has been included to the function, which is scheduled to choose spot at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas.
Sato has gained two of a few octagon contests, including a 48 second finish of Jason Witt in his most recent look in June at UFC Vegas 12. The 30-12 months-previous started his UFC tenure with a 2nd-round TKO win in excess of Ben Saunders in April 2019. Five months afterwards at UFC 242, Sato was submitted by Belal Muhammad.
MMA DNA was very first to report the reserving.
Baeza has won all 9 of his qualified fights, 7 of which were prior to they went to the judges’ scorecards. “Caramel Thunder” gained a UFC agreement when he picked up a unanimous selection acquire above Victor Reyna on Dana White’s Contender Sequence in June 2019. The MMA Masters 170-pounder has won both equally of his octagon bouts with finishes in the second round of Hector Aldana and, most not long ago at UFC on ESPN 8 in May, Matt Brown. The 28-calendar year-previous was scheduled to experience Mickey Gall at UFC Vegas 11 right before an damage compelled Gall out of the matchup.
The UFC’s Nov. 28 event will be headlined by a pivotal heavyweight matchup among Curtis Blaydes and Derrick Lewis.