BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » a-perfect-story https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:58:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Carlos Leal aims to destroy Muslim Salikhov and avoid another UFC Abu Dhabi robbery https://www.badmma.com/carlos-leal-aims-to-destroy-muslim-salikhov-and-avoid-another-ufc-abu-dhabi-robbery.html https://www.badmma.com/carlos-leal-aims-to-destroy-muslim-salikhov-and-avoid-another-ufc-abu-dhabi-robbery.html#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2025 05:00:00 +0000 BAD MMA News https://www.badmma.com/carlos-leal-aims-to-destroy-muslim-salikhov-and-avoid-another-ufc-abu-dhabi-robbery.html Rinat Fakhretdinov raises Carlos Leal’s hands after their 2024 fight in Abu Dhabi | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Brazilian welterweight Carlos Leal is 1-1 under the UFC banner, but he will have a different answer if you ask him for his octagon record. Set to face Muslim Salikhov in the preliminary portion of UFC Abu Dhabi on July 26, Leal admits he hasn’t moved on from this late-notice debut loss to Rinat Fakhretdinov . They met in October 2024, inside the same venue he returns to this weekend, and Leal lost a highly controversial decision when Hadi Mohamed Ali, Michael Bell and David Lethaby unanimously awarded Fakhretdinov the win.

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