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A potential bantamweight title eliminator between Henry Cejudo and Merab Dvalishvili has been booked for UFC 298.
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Multiple outlets confirmed the pairing after Cejudo initially announced the bout on his YouTube channel Sunday. UFC 298 takes place on Feb. 17 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and is headlined by a featherweight title tilt between Alexander Volkanovski and Ilia Topuria.
Cejudo returned from a three-year retirement at UFC 288 this past May, where he dropped a split decision to Aljamain Sterling in a bantamweight championship clash. The Olympic gold medalist had been unbeaten in six previous Octagon appearances from 2017 to 2020. “The Messenger” owns notable wins over the likes of Dominick Cruz, Marlon Moraes, T.J. Dillashaw, Demetrious Johnson, Sergio Pettis and Jussier Formiga, to name a few.
Dvalishvili will take a nine-fight promotional winning streak into the matchup with Cejudo. In his last outing, “The Machine” outdueled ex-champ Petr Yan over five rounds in the UFC Fight Night 221 main event on March 11.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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