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Farah Hannoun and Ken Hathaway

UFC Fight Night 229’s Alex Morono hopes to fulfill goal of 20 octagon wins

LAS VEGAS – Alex Morono needs eight more UFC wins to reach one of his biggest career milestones.

Morono (23-8 MMA, 12-5 UFC) takes on Joaquin Buckley (16-6 MMA, 6-4 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 229 welterweight featured bout at the UFC Apex. The event streams on ESPN+.

The Fortis MMA fighter has quietly won five of his past six fights – including big wins over Donald Cerrone, Matthew Semelsberger, and, most recently, a submission of Tim Means at UFC on ABC 4 in May.

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