This coming Saturday, October 21, at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, Anshul Jubli will make his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut on the undercard of UFC 294: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2.
On the preliminary card of the UFC 294 event, which will be headlined by a title fight between champion Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski in the 155-pound category, Jubli will face off against American lightweight Mike Breeden.
The 28-year-old Indian enters the fight with a perfect 10-6-0 professional MMA record, while Breeden has a three-bout losing streak in the UFC and a 10-6-0 MMA record.
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Jubli is not the first Indian to compete in the promotion, but he is the first to win a fight there. After Maharashtra’s Bharat Kandare, who lost his sole match in the UFC to South Korea’s Song Yadong by submission, he is the second Indian to sign a contract and compete in the UFC.
Jubli, who has won seven out of seven fights in the professional MMA circuit, will be in excellent shape for this weekend’s contest.
Anshul Jubli of India yelled “Namaste UFC, India is here!” during the Road to UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) final victory. And he would soon fulfil his dreams in a matter of days.
In a lightweight early preliminary match at UFC 294 on Saturday, Jubli will compete against Mike Breeden of the United States. At the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, the lightweight title battle between Alexander Volkanovski and Islam Makhachev will serve as the main event.
The Uttarakhand-born fighter will enter this weekend’s contest in excellent shape as he has won seven of his last seven professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) contests.