Melshik Badassayan vs TJ Laramie
Vincent Luquet vs Berard Mohammed
Uriah Hall vs Andrei Muniz
Chris Barnett vs Martin Booday
The next UFC match, known by the Chinese side as McCell's kickboxing rising star "Machine Gun" Melshik Badassayan, has been confirmed, and he will participate in the 206th UFC Fighting Night held on April 17, Beijing time, against Canadian rookie TJ Laramie.
Melshik Badasayan (7-1, 5 K, 0 S) is 30 years old and has a height of 173 cm with an arm span of 178 cm. Coming from Muay Thai, he has a (9-2, 4 KO) kicking record, having defeated Xie Lei, Chen Weichao, Qiu Jianliang and Wei Ninghui, and was also defeated by Lu Jianbo in the first KO. The most recent kickboxing match was a defeat in March 2018 against K-1 WGP sub-middleweight champion Kubo Yuta. He began his professional MMA career in 2014, and although his first MMA match was demoted in the first set, he played a seven-game winning streak, including a 2020 Bai Dana Draft point win, joined the UFC last year with a (5-1) result, and is currently winning two consecutive wins at the UFC, and in the second set in July, TKO Collin Anglin just beat Bruno Souza in November.
TJ Laramie (12-4, 7 K, 2 S) is 24 years old and has a height of 168cm and an arm span of 168cm. He began his professional MMA career in 2015, won the TKO badmintonweight championship in 2017, the PFC badmintonweight championship in 2019, won the first set of the White Dana Draft in August 2020, and then joined the UFC with a (12-3) result and four consecutive wins, unfortunately the UFC debut in September 2020 was defeated by Darrick Minner in the first 52 seconds.
The headline main match was Between Vincent Luquet (21-7-1, 11 K, 8 S) against Berard Mohammed (20-3, 4 K, 1 S, 1 N). Other squads include American star Uliah Hall (17-10, 13 K, 1 S) against Brazilian rising star André Muniez (22-4, 4 K, 15 S). "Hugging Bear" Chris Barnett (22-7, 17 K, 0 S) against Slovakian rookie Martin Boudai (9-1, 7 K, 1 S).
Match Match Chart:
Sub-middleweight competitions:
Vicente Luque (#4) vs. Belal Muhammad (#5)
Middleweight Competition:
Uriah Hall (#9) vs. Andre Muniz (#13)
Heavyweight Competition:
Chris Barnett vs. Martin Buday
Featherweight Competition:
Melsik Baghdasaryan vs. T.J. Laramie）
Miguel Baeza vs. Dhiego Lima
Lightweight Competition:
Drakkar Klose vs. Brandon Jenkins
Jesse Ronson vs. Rafa Garcia
Caio Borralho vs. Gadzhi Omargadzhiev
Women's Welterweight Competition:
Lina Lansberg vs. Pannie Kianzad
Past interviews
Directed by Li Ke
Kung Fu star Li Bingyuan Jackie Chan female disciple Xu Dongmei