Lukasz Brzeski and Ryan Spann meet at UFC 318 in what might find yourself being a loser leaves city match in New Orleans.
A number of sources near the scenario confirmed the sunshine heavyweight fighters have agreed to fulfill on July 19. MMAjunkie first reported the information.
UFC 318 is topped by Lafayette’s personal Dustin Poirier making his retirement combat towards Max Holloway for the “BMF” championship.
Spann (22-11) makes an attempt to get again on observe after dropping to Waldo Cortes-Acosta by way of second-round knockout this previous March, a defeat that dropped “Superman’s” general UFC file to 8-6.
A person that when noticed himself on a excessive with fast finishes over Ion Cutelaba and Dominick Reyes in 2022, Spann has now misplaced 4 of his previous 5 since, three of these by the use of stoppage. The only victory over that time period was a bonus-winning guillotine towards Ovince Saint Preux in October 2024.
Brzeski (9-6-1, 1 NC) finds himself in a extra determined scenario within the promotion after profitable in solely one in every of his seven journeys to the octagon, together with his Dana White’s Contender Sequence shot that resulted in a no-contest after a drug take a look at failure prompted his win to be overturned.
The Polish expertise was nonetheless signed by the UFC regardless of the constructive take a look at for clomiphene, and misplaced three in a row to Martin Buday, Karl Williams and Cortes-Acosta earlier than edging a call over Valter Walker. Brzeski was featured in pay-per-view line-ups after that, a pair of first-round defeats to Mick Parkin and Kennedy Nzechukwu.
Damon Martin and Mike Heck contributed to this report.
