Gabriel Bonfim, UFC 291 ceremonial weigh-in Credit score: Eddie Legislation/Cageside Press
Gabriel and Ismael Bonfim, who each earned a spot within the UFC care of the Contender Sequence in 2022, will share an upcoming Struggle Night time card.
Gabriel Bonfim (16-1) will tackle Rinat Fakhretdinov (24-2-1), and Ismael Bonfim (20-4) faces off with Nazim Sadykhov (9-1-1), at UFC Vegas 102 on February 15, 2025.
Gabriel vs. Rinat shall be held at welterweight; Ismael vs. Nazim at light-weight. Eurosport and Laerte Viana have been first to report the pairings. Each fighters confirmed the bookings on social media.
The cardboard would be the second occasion held on the UFC Apex in 2025, because the promotion struggles to return to the highway full time (which can by no means occur, UFC Senior VP of Worldwide and Content material, David Shaw, advised Cageside Press final month).
Gabriel Bonfim is 3-1 within the UFC since coming into the promotion, with the lone loss seeing him succumb to knees within the clinch and a few follow-up strikes by the hands of Niolas Dalby in 2023. He bounced again this yr, preventing simply as soon as and profitable a unanimous choice towards Ange Loosa.
Opponent Fakhretdinov is coming off a call win over Carlos Leal that left a nasty style in lots of followers’ mouths, to not point out the UFC broadcast staff. That led to Fakhretdinov having a little bit of a spat with Daniel Cormier, who referred to as the welterweight “a moron.”
Ismael Bonfim, in the meantime, additionally had a bounce-back choice win in his final bout, defeating Vinc Pichel after a loss to Benoit Saint-Denis. His upcoming foe, Nazim Sadyhkov, is a fellow Contender Sequence product who’s 2-0-1 within the UFC thus far.
The UFC Vegas 102 card on Feb. 15, 2025 presently has the next reported match-ups hooked up to it:
Julia Avila vs. Jacqueline Cavalcanti
Rodolfo Vieira vs. Jacob Malkoun
Ismael Bonfim vs. Nazim Sadykhov
Rinat Fakhretdinov vs. Gabriel Bonfim
Juliana Miller vs. Carli Judice
Jose Delgado vs. Connor Matthews
