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Kris Moutinho will return to the Octagon for the first time in more than three years.
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The former CES MMA standout will square off against Malcolm Wellmaker at UFC Atlanta — also known as UFC on ESPN 69 — on June 14. Multiple outlets confirmed the bantamweight pairing following an initial report from MMA Mania.
UFC Atlanta takes place at the State Farm Arena and is headlined by a welterweight showdown pitting Kamaru Usman against Joaquin Buckley.
Moutinho gained a small measure of fame for his showdown with Sean O’Malley in July 2021, when he absorbed a large amount of punishment en route to a third-round TKO defeat at UFC 264. He parted ways with the promotion on the heels of a loss to Guido Cannetti but has since righted the ship with five consecutive triumphs on the regional circuit.
After earning a contract with a first-round knockout of Adam Bramhald on Dana White’s Contender Series, Wellmaker offered an encore in his Octagon debut at UFC Kansas City, where he finished Cameron Saaiman in the opening stanza. The 31-year-old Augusta, Georgia, native is 9-0 as a professional, with seven of those triumphs coming inside the distance.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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