🇨🇦 Canadian flyweight Malcolm (X) Gordon will make his UFC debut on the undercard on Saturday.
But the spotlight will be on the 125-pounders Saturday with a title bout on a televised UFC Fight Night card in Abu Dhabi. And Gordon will play a supporting role, making his UFC debut on the undercard — the first Canadian to compete on Fight Island.
Saturday’s main event sees Brazil’s Deiveson Figueiredo, ranked No 1 among 125-pound contenders, and No. 2 Joseph Benavidez meet for the flyweight title. Figueiredo stopped Benavidez by second-round TKO when they met in February but did not get the championship belt because he failed to make weight by 2.5 pounds.
Gordon is now facing Sweden’s Amir Albazi. The 26-year-old Albazi got 10 days notice, squeezing in one last training session in London after getting the call before heading to Heathrow Airport. “Yeah I haven’t fought for a year but I was in training camp for at least three fights that had fallen through,” said Gordon. “I’ve had some luck, man, the last two years … It’s been a rough road the last couple of years.”“I had gone through three training camps … with no reward,” he said.
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