Movsar Evloev Replaces Jonathan Pearce, Meets Bryce Mitchell at UFC 288

The undefeated Movsar
Evloev will step in for the injured Jonathan
Pearce and face Bryce
Mitchell at UFC
288.

The new featherweight booking was announced during the UFC on ESPN
44 broadcast on Saturday night. UFC 288 takes place on May 6 at the
Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and is headlined by a
bantamweight title tilt pitting Aljamain
Sterling against Henry
Cejudo.

Evloev has kicked off his professional tenure with 16 consecutive
triumphs. He is 6-0 in UFC competition and is coming off a
unanimous verdict over Dan Ige at UFC
Fight Night 207 on June 4. The former M-1 Global champ also owns
wins over the likes of Hakeem
Dawodu, Nik Lentz and
Enrique
Barzola.

Mitchell, meanwhile, suffered the first loss of his career at UFC
282, falling to Ilia
Topuria via second-round submission this past December. Prior
to that, “Thug Nasty” was victorious in his first six Octagon
appearances.