After a two-week cooling off period, the action inside the Octagon is about to get hot-and-heavy with 10 events over the next 10 weeks to close out the year, beginning with Saturday’s debut fight card in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
The biggest fights over that span are scheduled for later in the run, but this weekend’s event in the Maritimes is one that still carries the potential to have an impact on a couple different divisions — especially light heavyweight — and establish a handful of fighters as intriguing names to watch heading into 2019.
But as outstanding as the main event between Volkan Oezdemir and Anthony Smith is — and it is outstanding on many levels — the real lure of this card at the Avenir Centre is the opportunity to get a closer look at a trio of talents who have shown potential to this point, yet whose ceilings remain undefined.