Canada’s Mike Marotte is set to return to the Octagon after suffering his first loss in the Ultimate Fighting Championship to promotion veteran Neil Magny at UFC 297 in January.
“Proper” (10-2) will defeat “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 29 finalist Gilbert Urbina ( 7 wins, 3 losses). In Las Vegas. The news was first reported in a post by Canadian news outlet Sportsnet. X (Formerly known as Twitter). The collision was confirmed by Marotte in an Instagram post.
As mentioned above, Malott is coming off an upset loss to Magny by technical knockout in the third round at his home base in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ‘Proper’ was able to outclass ‘The Haitian Sensation’ in the first two rounds, but an exhausted Marotto fell to the bottom towards the end of the match, and Magny was peppered with punches from above. Referee Kevin MacDonald was forced to stop the fight with 15 seconds left, and Magny won the come-from-behind TKO victory.
Meanwhile, Urbina enters the Octagon fresh off a first-round TKO loss to Illinois’ Charlie Radke in February of this year. Prior to that, the 28-year-old recorded a second-round TKO win over Orion Coche in a 173-pound catchweight bout at UFC Fight Night 223 in May 2023.
