{"id":20821,"date":"2025-07-24T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/20821\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:30:08","slug":"aleksandar-rakic-draws-unbeaten-azamat-murzakanov-at-ufc-321-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/20821\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleksandar Rakic draws unbeaten Azamat Murzakanov at UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aleksandar Rakic will look to rebound when he draws an unbeaten rising contender at UFC 321<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rakic (14-5 MMA, 6-4 UFC) takes on Azamat Murzakanov (15-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) in a light heavyweight bout on Oct. 25 at Etihad Arena from Abu Dhabi, promotion officials announced<\/a> Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

After winning six of his first seven UFC fights, Rakic has now lost three in a row. He is coming off a unanimous decision setback to current light heavyweight champion Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 308<\/a> this past October.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Russia’s Murzakanov continued his rise up the 205-pound ladder after scoring back-to-back knockouts of Alonzo Menifield, and most recently Brendson Ribeiro in the first round at UFC 316<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

With the addition, the UFC 321 lineup includes:<\/p>\n

Champion Tom Aspinall<\/a> vs. Ciryl Gane \u2013 for heavyweight title<\/p>\n

Jailton Almeida vs. Alexander Volkov<\/p>\n

Azat Maksum vs. Mitch Raposo<\/p>\n

Ikram Aliskerov vs. JunYong Park<\/p>\n

Azamat Murzakanov vs. Aleksandar Rakic<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Aleksandar Rakic vs. Azamat Murzakanov joins UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aleksandar Rakic will look to rebound when he draws an unbeaten rising contender at UFC 321. Rakic (14-5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[2226,17572,17573,49,48,641,17574,638,17575,82,640,17576],"class_list":["post-20821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-aleksandar-rakic","tag-azamat-murzakanov","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-light-heavyweight","tag-mma","tag-rakic","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}