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.
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