In one of the more intriguing fights on the show, Felipe Lima takes on Muhammad Naimov on this weekend’s UFC Saudi Arabia card. Here’s how the two upstart featherweights match up with one another
Lima’s Fighting Biography
Felipe Lima will arrive in Saudi Arabia on a wave of European boosterism driving the surging OKTAGON promotion. After a fairly conventional competitive adolescence inside the regional Brazilian scene, Lima burst onto the mainstage in 2023. He achieved this thanks to an emphatic victory over Jonas Mågård, (at the time the Bantamweight champion) in a fight where he was expected to fulfil the role of sacrificial victim for the recently coronated champion.