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A featherweight division attraction has been announced by the UFC for UFC Fight Night Abu Dhabi as #4 Movsar Evloev faces Aaron Pico.
Evloev (19-0-0) has already picked up nine wins under the UFC banner, with notable wins coming over Aljamain Sterling, Nik Lentz, Hakeem Dawodu, Dan Ige, Diego Lopes and Arnold Allen. Evloev has only competed in two MMA promotions throughout his professional MMA career, with this promotions being the UFC and M-1 Challenge. Evloev has earned 19 wins as a professional MMA fighter and 12 of them came by way of decision.
Pico (13-4-0) is making his UFC debut in this encounter and does so on the strength of a three fight winning streak. Pico had previously spent the majority his professional MMA career competing in Bellator MMA and the PFL, where he picked up notable victories over Leandro Higo, Pedro Carvalho and Henry Corrales. Pico has competed 17 times as a professional MMA fighter and just two of those bouts went the distance.
UFC Fight Night Abu Dhabi takes place on Saturday, July 26 from the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi with Robert Whittaker and Reiner De Ridder headlining. PWInsiderXtra is providing live coverage of the event, which airs live on ABC.
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