UFC 327: Prochazka vs. Ulberg

And then in the prelim headliner, we will see the number seven ranked Azamat Marzakhanov versus the former title challenger and number eight ranked Dominic Reyes.

The professional Azamat Mirzakhanov out of Russia will be entering UFC 333 off the heels of his first professional loss ever, and that was a knockout to the aforementioned Paolo Costa, which took place back at UFC 327 in April via third round head kick.

Before that, he was 16-0 with 13 of his 16 wins coming by way of stoppage and 12 of the 13 by knockout.

The 37-year-old taekwondo specialist is very, very dangerous, and I think poses a big-time threat to someone that has had durability issues in his past in Dominic Reyes.

However, for Reyes, we know the stretch of bad luck that he was on following that Jon Jones loss between February of 2020 and November of 2022, but after a long hiatus and coming back in the summer of 2024, he has won four of his last five bouts with three of the four via knockout and the only losses to the current champion Carlos Alberg.

and he had a fight back in April at UFC 327, although it was a very lackluster fight against Johnny Walker where he would get a split decision.

But if he can make it two wins in a row in five of his last six, Dominic Reyes will be amongst the title contenders again for the first time since his fights against Prohaska, Blachowicz, and Jones in 2020 and 2021.

And in the final ranked matchup on the card, we will see the number 12 ranked middleweight, Abus Magomedov, taking on Cameron Rosten.

So now not only is Lupe Godinez behind the eight ball in the sense of trying to bounce back from a loss, which she has successfully done multiple times so far in her UFC run, now she's trying to get the nasty taste out of her mouth of being forced to tap.

Because that fight between her and Suarez essentially came down to who is the better wrestler, because although Lupe is fantastic in that realm of mixed martial arts, no one comes close to Tatiana's wrestling skills in this strawweight division, and it showed there on that night at UFC 327.

But in this fight for Lupe, Ketlen Souza is nowhere near the caliber of Tatiana Suarez, not only from a wrestling standpoint, but I would say just in the grand scheme of mixed martial arts.

Because even though she does enter on a two-fight win streak, including a knockout in her last fight in June when she finished Ariane Carnelossi, in her six UFC bouts, she is just three and three, and this is by far the biggest step up in competition that she has had to date.