UFC’s yet-to-be-announced Struggle Evening occasion in Rio de Janeiro has one other battle lined up for Oct. 11, as Vitor Petrino takes on Thomas Petersen in Brazil. A number of individuals with data of the scenario confirmed the pairing with MMA Combating.
The match-up joins Jhonata Diniz vs. Mario Pinto, first reported by MMA Fighting for the corporate’s return to Cidade Maravilhosa. The promotion has but to disclose which fighters will headline the cardboard.
Petersen (10-3) is a former LFA heavyweight champion who joined the UFC after tapping out Chandler Cole at Dana White’s Contender Sequence in August 2023. The 30-year-old has a 80 p.c ending fee in his MMA wins, however went the space in each UFC victories, a pair of selections over Mohammed Usman and Don’Tale Mayes.
Petrino (12-2) made brief work of Austen Lane in his heavyweight debut this previous weekend in Nashville, rebounding from consecutive 205-pound defeats to Anthony Smith and Dustin Jacoby with a first-round rear-naked choke end. He now holds a UFC file of 5-2.
Talking with MMA Combating after the UFC Nashville win, Petrino volunteered to combating as quickly as attainable now that he didn’t have to fret about reducing right down to gentle heavyweight.
“That is my eighth battle in lower than three years and I need to maintain that tempo at heavyweight,” Petrino mentioned earlier this week. “If a battle exhibits up tomorrow, simply put the shorts again on and get within the octagon [laughs]. I undoubtedly need to battle a couple of times extra this yr. The advantage of being a heavyweight is that we will be supplied a battle at any given second.”
Mike Heck contributed to this report.
