Top Japanese middleweight debuts in promotion by fight against Nouname from Bulgaria.
Yushin Okami, under quite disputable circumstances dismissed of UFC, at last learned date of the debut in WSOF and a name of the first rival. "Thunder" will meet the master of suffocating receptions from Bulgaria Svetlozar Savov within the WSOF 9 tournament.
Ивент the State of Nevada, the USA will take place on March 29 in Las Vegas. Shaw will head one more loud debut - other dismissed from UFC for a title top fighter Rosimar Palkhareswith will fight with the champion of a light-middleweight division Steve Karl.
Okami (29-8) who has carried out to UFC a set of fights, was suddenly dismissed from the organization after Ronaldo's only loss "Jacquard" of Suz in September of last year. Before Yushin won three fights in succession, having knocked out Buddy Roberts and having won on points against Alan Belcher and Hector Lombard.
32-year-old Okami for career in the oktagena managed to fight with Rich Franklin, Evan Tanner, Cheyl Sonnen, Mark Munyos, Nathe Markvardt and the champion of a division of that time Anderson Silva. President of UFC Dana White, however, considered that Yushin "became a gatekeeper", and exempted the highly paid athlete from contractual obligations.
Savov (12-4) won 3 of 4 last duels, having won against nobody against known European fighters. To the domestic hardkorny fan Svetlozar can be known thanks to loss to Vyacheslav Vasilevsky on the S-70 tournament, and also defeats of Bagautdinu Sharaputdinov and Murad Magomedov on the Bulgarian shows RPC.
Thus 25-year-old Savov 8 of 12 victories gained delivery of the rival, from them 7 - different types of a guillotine. As to it it will help with fight against obviously being a class higher than Okami, however, resolutely unclear.
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