Fight Nights champion Kopylov moves to UFC

MMA fighter Roman Kopylov has signed a contract with the UFC organization. It is noted that in the UFC Kopylov will perform as a middleweight. Earlier, the 27-year-old Kopylov was the Fight Nights Global champion. He has eight wins and no defeat.

His last fight Kopylov had last December at the Fight Nights Global 91 tournament. In that fight, he knocked out Yasubei Enomoto in the fourth round and defended his belt.

Kopylov won the title of Fight Nights in March 2018 at the Fight Nights Global 85 event, when he overcame the champion Abusupiyan Alikhanov by TKO in the fourth five-minute run.