{"id":43677,"date":"2025-08-04T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43677\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:48:12","slug":"artem-lobov-expected-to-return-to-mma-against-zubaira-tukhogov-at-planned-pfl-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43677\/","title":{"rendered":"Artem Lobov expected to return to MMA against Zubaira Tukhogov at planned PFL event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artem Lobov<\/a> is making his return to combat sports with a fight booked against longtime rival Zubaira Tukhogov planned for a PFL event in October, although no official details have been revealed.<\/p>\n

Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting with Lobov touting the matchup on social media following an initial post from MMA Uncensored.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c7 years in the making,\u201d Lobov wrote on Twitter. \u201cTime to get revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The history between these two fighters dates back several years when Lobov was competing in the UFC and he ended up in a confrontation with members of Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a>\u2019s team, including Tukhogov, in 2018 ahead of UFC 223<\/a>. In the aftermath of that encounter, Lobov\u2019s then teammate and friend Conor McGregor<\/a> came to New York and ended up launching an assault on a bus where Nurmagomedov and other UFC fighters were loaded as passengers following a press conference.<\/p>\n

Lobov was among those involved in the incident and he was actually pulled from his fight scheduled that weekend.<\/p>\n

The UFC eventually booked Lobov against Tukhogov but the bout never happened after Tukhogov was involved in a post-fight melee at UFC 229<\/a> where Nurmagomedov submitted McGregor in the main event before jumping over the cage to go after members of McGregor\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

The matchup was never rescheduled with Lobov and Tukhogov both eventually leaving the UFC roster but now they\u2019ll finally attempt to settle their differences in the PFL cage.<\/p>\n

Lobov is competing for the first time since 2021 when he retired from competition following several bare-knuckle fights. He\u2019s also no longer aligned with McGregor after filing a lawsuit against his former friend over proceeds from the sale of Proper No. 12 whiskey, which he claims he helped launch.<\/p>\n

As for Tukhogov, the Russian is also making his return to action for the first time in over two years with his last fight coming back in 2023 when he lost a decision to Elves Brener<\/a> in the UFC.<\/p>\n

The fight between Lobov and Tukhogov is expected to take place at a catchweight of 165 pounds with the card currently targeted for Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artem Lobov is making his return to combat sports with a fight booked against longtime rival Zubaira Tukhogov…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[1914,38200,1929,64,63,5946,38202,786,585,1347,38201,785,5963,7613,38205,9664,85,319,38204,787,1396,38203],"class_list":["post-43677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-against","tag-artem","tag-at","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-event","tag-expected","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-latest-news","tag-lobov","tag-mma","tag-pfl","tag-pfl-news","tag-planned","tag-return","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-tukhogov","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-zubaira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}