Now that his business with Ion Cutelaba has been settled, Magomed Ankalaev is on to the next one.
At UFC 254, Ankalaev and Cutelaba met in a rematch stemming from their controversial first meeting earlier this year at UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo, where Ankalaev stopped Cutelaba in just 38 seconds — a finish that was heavily protested by Cutelaba, who insisted he was alright after being wobbled several times.
It took five separate times for the rematch to come together as it was hit by multiple cancellations and reschedulings due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it finally happened this past Saturday.