A duel Nikita Krylov – Kreyg Paul will take place in the spring
Top-9 of a rating of light heavyweights of UFC Nikita Krylov (27-8) in the following fight will face with top-11 Kreyg Paul (15-4-1). Nikita Krylov from 2013 to 2017 carried out 9 fights to UFC, 3 from which lost, after loss to Mikhail Tsirkunov (15-7) left UFC because of discontent with contract. Further Nikita Krylov won 4 early victories, including over Nyuton Emanuel and Fabio Rozherio Maldonado (28-16), but upon return to UFC in 2018 was strangled by Ian Blakhovich (28-9). Since then Nikita Krylov alternates victories to defeats: strangled Ovins Saint-Pryu (25-16) in a revenge, the separate decision conceded to Glover Teysheyre (33-7)...