Darren Until is ready to face Luke Rockhold in a bridgerweight title combat, whereas Tony Ferguson crosses over to influencer boxing for a combat towards Salt Papi, at Misfits Boxing 22 scheduled on Aug. 30 from the AO Enviornment in Manchester.
Misfits boxing introduced the matchups on Wednesday.
Until makes his third look beneath the Misfits banner when he returns in August after scoring wins over a pair of MMA veterans in Anthony Taylor and Darren Stewart. The veteran middleweight has centered totally on boxing ever since asking for his launch from the UFC.
Now he’ll face a former UFC champion in Rockhold as he makes his transfer into boxing after competing within the UFC, Strikeforce, BKFC and even Karate Fight.
Whereas issues didn’t work out too properly for Rockhold in BKFC after he suffered a loss to Mike Perry in his one and solely bare-knuckle combat, he returned to kind with a surprising knockout over Joe Schilling in his Karate Fight debut this previous April. Rockhold debuts with Misfits whereas going through off with Until in a title combat at bridgerweight — a weight class set between 200 and 224 kilos — in the primary occasion.
As for Ferguson, the previous interim UFC light-weight champion has been teasing his curiosity in probably crossing over the boxing and now he’ll get his likelihood.
Ferguson left the UFC on an eight-fight skid however by no means actually contemplated retirement after initially signing with the International Struggle League earlier than that promotion tanked previous to its debut present. He continued pursuing totally different choices and finally landed on boxing with an interim middleweight title going up for grabs in his combat.
He faces Salt Papi — a widely known determine within the influencer boxing sport after he made waves with a few nasty knockouts early in his profession earlier than coping with some adversity together with back-to-back losses. Since then, he’s bounced again with three straight wins together with a knockout at Misfits 19 this previous November.
Until vs. Rockhold and Ferguson vs. Salt Papi headline the Misfits Boxing 22 card, which is ready to air on DAZN in the USA.
