Four lightweights—all seeking a win, all on decidedly different career paths—make up two fights announced Wednesday for UFC on Fox 16, scheduled for July 25 in Chicago.
In the first fight, hard-hitting Erik Koch takes on wrestle-boxer Ramsey Nijem. The other presents struggling Team Alpha Male member Danny Castillo with a tall order in Russian grappler Rustam Khabilov.
Both bouts were announced Wednesday by Matt Erickson of MMAJunkie.com.
Both 27-year-old Nijem (9-5) and the 26-year-old Koch (14-4) will try to rebound from a prior loss. Nijem followed up two straight losses in 2013 with two straight wins in 2014, only to fall by TKO to Carlos Diego Ferreira last August.