One of these two
Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweights
will get back in the win column when the dust settles.
MMAJunkie first broke the news on Thursday that
Ismael
Bonfim (19-4) and
Vinc Pichel
(14-3) will be competing in a lightweight matchup at
UFC Fight Night 231 on Nov. 4. Bonfim
confirmed the pairing on Instagram shortly after its
announcement.
Brazil’s Bonfim saw his mighty 13-fight win streak come to a
crashing halt when
Benoit St.
Denis tapped him out with a face crank in July. Before then,
“Marreta” rattled off eight stoppages along the way, including his
most recent victory with a flying knee knockout of
Terrance
McKinney in his UFC debut. Bonfim will be competing at this
event along with his brother,
Gabriel
Bonfim, who is slated to take on
Nicolas
Dalby. Over the years, the two brothers have fought on four
events together, and they both picked up wins on all four of those
fight cards.
While he did not sport 13 wins in a row leading up to his
high-stakes encounter with
Mark O.
Madsen in April 2022, Pichel did see his three-bout stretch of
victories come to a halt at the hands of the Danish wrestler.
Before then, “From Hell” claimed three decisions in 2019, 2020 and
2021 against
Roosevelt
Roberts,
Jim Miller
and
Austin
Hubbard, respectively. The 40-year-old has been on the UFC
roster since 2012, and this will be just his 11 appearance.
UFC Fight Night 231 will go down at the Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 4. The headliner will see two ranked
heavyweights ply their trades as
Curtis
Blaydes battles it out with
Jailton
Almeida. While the lineup has otherwise not been made official,
fights that will likely reach the main card include a middleweight
scrap between
Rodolfo
Vieira and
Armen
Petrosyan, a strawweight affair pitting
Angela Hill
against
Denise
Gomes and a welterweight contest of
Elizeu
Zaleski dos Santos vs.
Rinat
Fakhretdinov.