Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is inching closer to its upcoming UFC Baku event, locked and loaded for Sat., June 27, 2026 at Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Paramount+ fight card will be headlined by local hero and ranked lightweight Rafael Fiziev taking on prolific finisher Manuel Torres
. In the UFC Baku co-main event, middleweight maulers Shara Magomedov and Michel Pereira hook ‘em up at 185 pounds.Now they have an official poster (courtesy of Marcel Dorff):
Fiziev (13-5), once
ranked as high as No. 6 at 155 pounds, is looking to turn things around in a hurry, having dropped four of his last five dating back to summer 2022. As for Torres (17-3), a product of Dana White’s “Contender Series” in late 2021, he’s coming off back-to-back technical knockout wins over Drew Dober and Grant Dawson.
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