Payton Talbott, UFC 303 ceremonial weigh-in Credit score: Eddie Legislation/Cageside Press
January’s UFC 311 has added the red-hot Payton Talbott, who will tackle Brazilian risk Raoni Barcelos on the first UFC Pay-Per-View occasion of 2025.
UFC officers lately introduced that Talbott (9-0) would face the rather more skilled Barcelos (18-5) on the occasion in Los Angeles, CA on January 18, 2025. The struggle will probably be contested within the bantamweight division.
Talbot, 26, earned his means into the UFC on Dana White’s Contender Sequence in 2023. He’s completed eight of 9 opponents over the course of his skilled blended martial arts profession; two of his three fights underneath the UFC banner have resulted in a Efficiency of the Evening bonus.
Most lately, Talbott completed Yanis Ghemmouri with strikes in all of 19 seconds.
Barcelos holds three post-fight bonuses throughout his UFC tenure, which has seen him put up a 7-4 document. The Brazilian is a former RFA featherweight champion; he signed with the UFC in 2017 and debuted the next yr.
UFC 311 is ready to happen on the Intuit Dome, with the next match-ups reported for the cardboard:
Jiří Procházka vs. Jamahal Hill
Jailton Almeida vs. Serghei Spivac
Rinya Nakamura vs. Muin Gafurov
Johnny Walker vs. Bogdan Guskov
Zachary Reese vs. Sedriques Dumas
Raoni Barcelos vs. Payton Talbott
Ricky Turcios vs. Bernardo Sopaj
Grant Dawson vs. Carlos Diego Ferreira
Kevin Holland vs. Reinier de Ridder
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