“Big Train” had a little trouble getting out of the station at the start of last year, opening his UFC run with a first-round knockout loss to Nikolas Motta that bounced him from the ranks of the unbeaten. But the DWCS grad scored a first-round stoppage win over Victor Martinez in May to get things moving in the right direction, and closed out his rookie campaign in the Octagon with a unanimous decision win over Alex Reyes at UFC 305 to move to 8-1 overall.
Now the Queensland man and Compton Training Centre product kicks off his sophomore season on the roster with a matchup against fellow Contender Series grad Viacheslav Borshchev this weekend in Sydney.
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