A heavyweight showdown pitting
Alexander
Volkov against
Alexander
Romanov
has been added to the
UFC Fight Night 221 lineup.
Eurosport was first to report the pairing. UFC Fight Night 221
takes place at the The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas on
March 11 and is headlined by a bantamweight clash between
Merab
Dvalishvili and
Petr Yan.
Volkov is coming off a 1-1 campaign in 2022 in which he suffered a
first-round submission loss to
Tom
Aspinall at UFC Fight Night 204 before scoring a first-round
technical knockout of
Jairzinho
Rozenstruik at UFC Fight Night 207. The former Bellator and M-1
Global champion owns wins over the likes of
Fabricio
Werdum,
Roy Nelson,
Stefan
Struve,
Alistair
Overeem,
Tim Johnson
and
Marcin
Tybura.
Romanov began his professional tenure with 16 consecutive triumphs
before dropping a majority decision to Tybura in his last outing at
UFC 278. The Moldovan known as “King Kong” has finished all but one
of his victories inside the distance.