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Brave CF champion steps in on short notice to make UFC debut
There’s been a late-notice switch-up to the UFC Belgrade card.
Following an initial report from Marcel Dorff, the UFC announced that that Josias Musasa is out of his scheduled bantamweight fight against Mark Vologdin at this weekend’s event. In his stead, Brave CF bantamweight champion Borislav Nikolic steps in to fight Volgodin.
Vologdin (12-4-2) is the rare Contender Series graduate who lost his fight, but impressed Dana White enough to earn a contract regardless, also earning an extra bonus from White for his 2025 Fight of the Year contender with Adrian Luna Martinetti. Vologdin made his promotional debut in April, going to a draw with John Castaneda at UFC Winnipeg.
Serbian. Thirty-three years old, born 29 January 1993 in Vršac, a small town up near the Romanian border in Vojvodina. Bantamweight. Five foot nine with a sixty-nine inch reach. Record: 16-2, and only one of those sixteen wins went to the judges. Seven knockouts, eight submissions. He has never been finished by strikes.
They call him “Zombi”. A commentator threw it at him on a broadcast, he laughed, and then his coach and the BRAVE CF marketing people decided it fit a man who walks forward without any visible emotion and hits people. It stuck.
He is the reigning BRAVE CF Bantamweight world champion. He also keeps 120 beehives.
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Mark Vologdin’s UFC debut may have ended in a draw earlier this year, but this time the Russian fighter got off to a crazy start at UFC Belgrade against Borislav Nikolic.
He dropped UFC debutant “Zombee” early in the fight, then pinned him against the fence and controlled his neck while unloading a series of heavy knees until the Serbian fighter managed to break free.
Nikolic found his range after the first three minutes. He then made the most of his reach advantage, picking Vologdin apart with kicks and punches from the outside without stepping into the pocket or chasing his opponent.
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