UFC Abu Dhabi loses major contender fight

Jose Ochoa steps in against Asu Almabayev at UFC Abu Dhabi

As reported by Sport Kor and corroborated by Marcel Dorff, the flyweight contender fight between Ramazan Temirov and Asu Almabayev at UFC Abu Dhabi is off. Temirov has reportedly withdrawn.

Instead, Almabayev will fight Jose Ochoa, who scored a brutal knockout over the battle-tested Cody Durden at UFC Atlanta in June.

With this news, UFC Abu Dhabi maintains thirteen fights, subject to change:

• Robert Whittaker vs. Reinier de Ridder; middle
• Movsar Evloev vs. Aaron Pico; five round feather
• Nikita Krylov vs. Bogdan Guskov; light heavy
• Shara Magomedov vs. Marc-Andre Barriault; middle
• Petr Yan vs. Marcus McGhee; bantam
• Bryce Mitchell vs. Said Nurmagomedov; bantam
• Ibo Aslan vs. Billy Elekana; light heavy
• Amanda Ribas vs. Tabatha Ricci; straw
• Muslim Salikhov vs. Carlos Leal; welter
• Da'Mon Blackshear vs. Davey Grant; bantam
• Mohammad Yahya vs. Steven Nguyen; feather
• Martin Buday vs. Marcus Buchecha; heavy
• Asu Almabayev vs. Jose Ochoa; fly

UFC Abu Dhabi could determine the next title challengers in the middleweight, featherweight, and bantamweight divisions.

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