Rafael Fitzyev called out former UFC champion Dos Anjos

Raphael Fitzyev

Kyrgyzstan's rising kickboxing star Rafael Fiziev just won five straight last month when he recently publicly called out former UFC lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos on social networking sites.

Fitzyev said: "Raphael, yesterday has become history, tomorrow is still unknown, but today is a gift. That's why it's been called the moment, let's see who is the strongest Raphael in the UFC. ”

Rafael Fitzyev (11-1, 7 K, 1 S) is 28 years old and has a height of 173 cm with an arm span of 180 cm. Coming from Muay Thai, he has a (39-8, 29 KO) kickboxing record, having won the Kyrgyz Muay Thai championship as well as the WMF and IFMA championships. Starting his professional MMA career in 2015, he joined the UFC tournament with a (6-0) result in 2019, and although he suffered his first career defeat in the UFC debut by Magomed Mustafaev's first-leg TKO, he recently played a five-game winning streak, including a point-and-roll victory over Bobby Green in August last year, and another boxing rising star, Brad, just after the third leg in December Riddell）。 Fitzyev is currently 11th in the UFC official rankings in the lightweight category.

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