Kurt Pellegrino vs. Thiago Tavares, Three Additional Bouts Added To UFC 88
A lightweight bout between Kurt Pellegrino and Thiago Tavares has been added to the undercard of UFC 88 on September 6th in Atlanta.
The bout was recently announced by the promotion along with three additional preliminary bouts: Ryo Chonan vs. Roan Carneiro, Dong Hyun Kim vs. Matt Brown, and Tim Boetsch vs. James Lee.
Pellegrino (11-4) made his octagon debut at UFC 61 in a loss to Drew Fickett but bounced back with back-to-back UFC wins over Junior Assuncao and Nate Mohr. Following a loss to Joe Stevenson, Pellegrino posted a TKO win over Alberto Crane but was dealt another setback in his latest fight, a second-round submission loss to Nate Diaz.
Tavares (15-2) won 13 straight bouts to open his MMA career including back-to-back wins over Naoyuki Kotani and Jason Black in the UFC. After suffering the first loss of his career at UFC 76 to Tyson Griffin, Tavares defeated Michihiro Omigawa at UFC Fight Night 12. In the “Fight of the Night”, Tavares was defeated in his last bout by Matt Wiman via second-round knockout at UFC 85 in June.
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Thiago Tavares tko
Dong Hyun Kim very underated imo! will win any way he wants
Tim Boetsch will destroy James lee
awww to guys in nate diaz wreckage
Well, bye bye to Matt Brown. This will be the last time you see him in the UFC. He might pop up in the WEC, but I think he’s going to look bad here. Tavares has great defense of subs, and he’s just bigger and stronger than Pelligrino. Thiago tko in the 2nd.
Ryo Chonan
Kurt Pellegrino
Dong Hyun Kim
Tim Boetsch
i wish the pelligrino/tavares fight was on the main card. Those are really exciting fighters
I think if Ryo gets 1-2 good fights maybe fight of the night Dana will have to bribe him to bounce up to 185.
JayboneNJ say to Braveheart Thiago got his ass dropped twice in the 1st and thanks to Kurt Thiago walks away w/ an extra 60 grand for fight of the night. Not bad for my ex-wrestling and training partner. Almost 100 grand for 15 minutes of work. It’ll really boost the quality of equip at his new gym here in NJ. I can’t wait to roll their!!