A middleweight clash pitting
Warlley
Alves against
Abusupiyan
Magomedov
has been added to a
UFC
Fight Night event set to go down on May 18.
Alves confirmed the booking on social media following an initial
report from Marcel Dorff on X (formerly known
as Twitter). The event is likely to take place at the UFC Apex in
Las Vegas, but a main event has not been announced. Other matchups
expected for the event include
Ramiz
Brahimaj vs.
Themba
Gorimbo (welterweight);
Luana
Pinheiro vs.
Angela Hill
(strawweight);
Vanessa
Demopoulos vs.
Emily
Ducote (strawweight) and
Hailey
Cowan vs.
Tamires
Vidal (flyweight).
Alves (14-7), has gone 1-4 in his last five Octagon outings, most
recently suffering a Round 1 technical knockout loss at the hands
of
Ikram
Aliskerov at
UFC 294. It was the Brazilian’s first middleweight bout since
his
Ultimate Fighting Championship debut.
Meanwhile, Magomedov (25-6) is on a two-fight skid after suffering
a Round 2 TKO loss against former middleweight champion
Sean
Strickland in July and a unanimous decision defeat at the hands
of
Caio
Borralho last November.