UFC 316 is including a welterweight slugfest to its card.
On Tuesday, A number of individuals with information of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Preventing that Khaos Williams faces Uros Medic in a 170-pound struggle at UFC 316 on June 7 at Prudential Middle in Newark, NJ. Al Zullino was the primary to report the matchup.
Becoming a member of the UFC in 2020, Williams made a reputation for himself as a knockout artist, with stoppages over Alex Morono, Abdul Razak Alhassan, Miguel Baeza, and Carlston Harris. Most lately, Williams misplaced by technical submission to Gabriel Bonfim after falling asleep in Bonfim’s brabo choke at UFC Vegas 102 in February.
Coming into the UFC off of Contender Collection in 2021, Medic started his promotional profession as a light-weight earlier than bumping again as much as 170 kilos in 2023. In seven UFC bouts, Medic has a 4-3 file, with all fights ending by the use of stoppage. Most lately, Medic acquired knocked out in simply 31 seconds by Punahele Soriano at UFC Vegas 101 in January.
UFC 316 is headlined by a bantamweight title rematch between Merab Dvalishvili and Sean O’Malley, with a girls’s bantamweight title struggle between Julianna Peña and Kayla Harrison serving because the co-main occasion.