Sam Alvey will get to fight out his UFC contract in August.
Alvey (33-17-1 MMA, 10-12-1 UFC) meets Michal Oleksiejczuk (16-5-1 MMA, 4-3-1 UFC) at UFC Fight Night on Aug. 6, which doesn’t yet have a publicly known venue or location.
A person with knowledge of the matchup confirmed the booking to MMA Junkie on Wednesday but asked to remain anonymous because the promotion has yet to make an official announcement. Sportowe Fakty was first to report the news.
Winless in his past eight octagon appearances, Alvey will look to pick up his first win since June 2018. The Season 16 “Ultimate Fighter” alum was submitted by Brendan Allen at UFC Fight Night 200 in February and has one fight remaining on his UFC contract, which he has been granted an opportunity to fight out. Alvey’s eight-fight winless skid is tied with B.J. Penn for the longest in UFC history.
Poland’s Oleksiejczuk will be moving back down to middleweight for the first time since his professional MMA debut, which he missed weight in by 5.8 pounds. After picking up back-to-back wins over Modestas Bukauskas and Shamil Gamzatov in 2021, the 27-year-old dropped a unanimous decision to Dustin Jacoby at UFC 272 in March.
With the addition, the Aug. 6 lineup includes:
- Thiago Santos vs. Jamahal Hill
- Vicente Luque vs. Geoff Neal
- Miranda Granger vs. Cory McKenna
- Stephanie Egger vs. Mayra Bueno Silva
- Erick Gonzalez vs. Terrance McKinney
- Misha Cirkunov vs. Shamil Gamzatov
- Sam Alvey vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk
