Joseph Pyfer should soon provide some clarity regarding exactly where he stands in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight pecking order.
The two-time Dana White’s Contender Series alum and former Ring of Combat champion will square off with Jack Hermansson in the headliner on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, where a spot in the Top 15 rankings at 185 pounds figures to be on the line. Pyfer, 27, has rattled off five consecutive victories, all of them finishes, in his rise to marquee attraction status. He last appeared at UFC Fight Night 229, where he put Abdul Razak Alhassan to sleep with an arm-triangle in the second round of their Oct.