A heavyweight clash pitting
Tai Tuivasa
against
Marcin
Tybura
is on tap for
UFC 298.
The Las Vegas-based promotion recently announced the booking. UFC
298 takes place on Feb. 17 at the Honda Center in Anaheim,
California, and is headlined by a featherweight championship bout
between
Alexander
Volkanovski and
Ilia
Topuria.
Tuivasa is in the midst of a three-fight skid in which he has been
finished by
Alexander
Volkov,
Sergei
Pavlovich and
Ciryl Gane.
Prior to that, the affable Aussie won five straight contests from
October 2020 to February 2022, stopping all of his opponents by
knockout or technical knockout. “Bam Bam” is 8-6 over the course of
his UFC tenure and 14-6 as a professional overall.
Tybura, meanwhile, is coming off a first-round technical knockout
defeat to current interim heavweight king
Tom
Aspinall at UFC Fight Night 224 on July 22. Prior to that, the
38-year-old Pole had been victorious in seven of his previous eight
Octagon appearances. His record includes wins over the likes of
Blagoy
Ivanov,
Alexander
Romanov,
Ben
Rothwell,
Sergey
Spivak,
Stefan
Struve and
Andrei
Arlovski.