{"id":352527,"date":"2025-12-18T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352527\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:17:07","slug":"ufc-books-alex-morono-vs-tuf-33-winner-daniil-donchenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352527\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC books Alex Morono vs. &#8216;TUF 33&#8217; winner Daniil Donchenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Morono is back, and he&#8217;ll take on Daniil Donchenko in a welterweight bout.<\/p>\n<p>The fight takes place Feb. 7 at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-bautista-vs-oliveira\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 266;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 266<\/a> at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Two people with knowledge of the matchup recently informed MMA Junkie of the booking but asked to remain anonymous as the promotion has yet to make an official announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Morono (24-12 MMA, 13-9 UFC) aims to snap a three-fight skid. A member of the UFC roster since 2016, Morono has put forth various exciting battles over the span of his 23-fight UFC tenure. Key victories for the Fortis MMA product include Court McGee, Tim Means, Donald Cerrone and Max Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Donchenko (12-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) won &#8220;The Ultimate Fighter 33&#8221; in September when he <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-fight-night-259-video-192722441.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:quickly finished Rodrigo Sezinando with strikes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quickly finished Rodrigo Sezinando with strikes<\/a> in Round 1. He is the former Naiza FC champion and has 10 finishes in 12 professional appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The updated UFC Fight Night 266 lineup includes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mario Bautista vs. Vinicius Oliveira<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Amir Albazi vs. Kyoji Horiguchi<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Uran Satybaldiev vs. Julius Walker<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Daniil Donchenko vs. Alex Morono<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rizvan Kuniev vs. Ryan Spann<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Farid Basharat vs. Jean Matsumoto<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Eduarda Moura vs. Cong Wang<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Daniil Donchenko vs. Alex Morono<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/17\/ufc-vegas-113-news-alex-morono-vs-daniil-donchenko\/87818983007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Vegas 113 adds new welterweight bout;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Vegas 113 adds new welterweight bout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Morono is back, and he&#8217;ll take on Daniil Donchenko in a welterweight bout. The fight takes place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[152913,49,48,78135,152914,641,638,1302,152915,82,30004,36996],"class_list":{"0":"post-352527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alex-morono","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-daniil-donchenko","12":"tag-donald-cerrone","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-mma-junkie","16":"tag-morono","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-ufc-apex","19":"tag-ufc-fight-night"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352527","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=352527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}