Tai Tuivasa and Alexander Volkov are reportedly set to face each other at UFC 293 on September 10.
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With the matchup, Tuivasa will return to action in his home country of Australia. 'Bam Bam' has seemingly signed to fight former Bellator champion and fellow heavyweight contender Alexander Volkov at the upcoming Sydney-held pay-per-view event.
MMA Junkie journalist Mike Bohn was the first to report the news.
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Tai Tuivasa will look to recover from his back-to-back knockout losses to Sergei Pavlovich and Ciryl Gane. His defeat to the latter in Paris snapped his five-fight winning streak.
Alexander Volkov, on the other hand, will walk into the bout riding a two-fight winning streak, having defeated both Alexandr Romanov and Jairzinho Rozenstruik via first-round TKO.
With the Russian's form in mind, 'Bam Bam' will have to be at his extraordinary best to return to winning ways in front of his fellow Australians.
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Holding an M.A. degree in political science, Imran worked as a columnist for different dailies of J&K for six years before joining Sportskeeda as an MMA writer in 2023.
He finds Jon Jones’ career inspirational and has ‘Bones’ at the very top of his GOAT list. The other MMA fighters in his Mt. Rushmore are Georges St-Pierre, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, and Valentina Shevchenko.
Imran became an MMA fan after watching Brock Lesnar TKO Frank Mir at UFC 100 in July 2009 to avenge a submission defeat to Mir one year earlier.
He is of the opinion that MMA is the world’s premier combat sport, which has overtaken boxing due to its burgeoning fan base and fights where the best challenge the best. He also likes the fusion of various disciplines in MMA. That said, Imran feels that the sport can still do better in terms of compensating fighters.
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