Israel Adesanya will face Shara Magomedov in a five-round middleweight bout to headline UFC Saudi Arabia on Dec. 5.<\/p>\n
Another five-round fight between welterweights Ian Machado Garry and Yaroslav Amosov will serve as the co-main event, the promotion announced during Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 293 broadcast.<\/p>\n
It will be the first UFC event hosted in Riyadh since Feb. 2025. Nassourdine Imavov defeated Adesanya via second-round TKO in that card’s main event.<\/p>\n
Adesanya, 37, is 24-6-0 in his MMA career and riding a four-fight losing streak. Most recently, the former two-time middleweight champ suffered a second-round TKO to Joe Pyfer in March.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Magomedov is 17-1-0 and on a two-fight winning streak. After his first career loss to Michael Page, Magomedov bounced back with consecutive victories against Michel Pereira and Marc-Andre Barriault.<\/p>\n
Garry (17-2-0) is coming off a loss to Islam Makhachev for the welterweight belt.<\/p>\n
Amosov is 30-1-0, which includes a current three-fight winning streak, all via submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya will face Shara Magomedov in a five-round middleweight bout to headline UFC Saudi Arabia on Dec.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-962703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962703","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=962703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}