UFC Fight Night 253 Kape vs Almabayev

Date
Sat 1st March 2025 (UTC)
Sat 1st March 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-03-01T23:00:00

Time

23:00:00 UTC

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League
UFC

Season
2025

Round
7

Status

Location
UFC APEX

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Description

UFC Fight Night 253 (also known as UFC Vegas 103) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on March 1, 2025, at the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Valley, United States.

Background

A UFC Flyweight title eliminator between former LFA Flyweight Champion (also former title challenger) Brandon Royval and former RIZIN Bantamweight Champion Manel Kape was expected to headline the event. However, Royval withdrew due to an undisclosed injury. He was replaced by Asu Almabayev. Albamayev was originally expected to face former flyweight title challenger Steve Erceg at the event, but the latter was moved to headline UFC on ESPN 64 and replaced by Allan Nascimento. Nascimento was in turn pulled from the event after the latest changes.

A middleweight bout between Cody Brundage and The Ultimate Fighter: Team Grasso vs. Team Shevchenko middleweight winner Ryan Loder was scheduled for this event. However, Loder withdrew from the fight for unknown reasons and was replaced by Julian Marquez.

Reports

Result List

01	Manel Kape	WIN
01	Asu Almabayev	LOSS

02	Cody Brundage	WIN
02	Julian Marquez	LOSS

03	Nasrat Haqparast	WIN
03	Esteban Ribovics	LOSS

04	Hyder Amil	WIN
04	William Gomis	LOSS

05	Sam Patterson	WIN
05	Danny Barlow	LOSS

06	Mario Pinto	WIN
06	Austen Lane	LOSS

07	Chepe Mariscal	WIN
07	Ricardo Ramos	LOSS

08	Danny Silva	WIN
08	Lucas Almeida	LOSS

09	JJ Aldrich	WIN
09	Andrea Lee	LOSS

10	Ramazan Temirov	WIN
10	Charles Johnson	LOSS