UFC Fight Night 260 Tournament in Baku Crystal Hall – Chance to See Exciting MMA Fights

The main event is a light heavyweight bout between Jamahal Hill and Khalil Rountree.

Former light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill will face Khalil Rountree Jr. in the main event of a UFC event. Hill and Rountree were originally scheduled to meet at UFC 303 in June. However, Rountree was forced to pull out of the bout after it was discovered that he accidentally consumed a banned substance. Rountree faced a minimum of four and a half months for a doping violation after he self-reported his accidental use of a banned substance. Hill also withdrew from the event due to injury.

Rountree (13-6) fought Alex Pereira for the light heavyweight title in October, losing via fourth-round unanimous decision. The loss ended Rountree’s five-fight winning streak. He is ranked seventh in the UFC light heavyweight division. Hill (12-3), the No. 4 ranked light heavyweight in the UFC, has suffered consecutive stoppage losses to Pereira in April and former champion Jiri Prochazka in January. He won the vacant light heavyweight title in 2023 with a unanimous decision over the powerful and aggressive Glover Teixeira, but was forced to relinquish the championship after suffering a torn Achilles tendon while playing basketball.

The fight between Hill and Rountree will mark the UFC’s first trip to Baku, Azerbaijan, and will air on ABC in the United States. It is also known that the lightweight fight between Rafael Fiziev and Ignacio Bahamondes will be one of the main events of the competition, after the performances of Hill and Rountree.

In addition, as part of the current tournament in the capital of Azerbaijan, all fans of fights will see the long-awaited return to the octagon of Kyoji Horiguchi. Of his seventeen victories, more than half, nine, Horiguchi won by knockout, but the Japanese flyweight fighter has not competed since 2016, and now his opponent will be the talented and ambitious Russian lightweight Tagir Ulanbekov, who has demonstrated excellent results at the professional level since 2013, and currently rightfully occupies tenth place in the UFC rankings in his weight category.

It is also expected that there will be two women's pairs. By purchasing tickets to the UFC Fight Night 260 tournament at the Baku Crystal Hall, you will see the battle between Irina Alekseeva and Klaudia Syguly, as well as Daria Zheleznyakova against Melissa Mullins. In the heavyweight category, there will be exciting fights between Hamdi Abdulvahhab and Mohammed Usman and Curtis Blaydes against Rizvan Kuniev.