Next month’s UFC Edmonton card continues to round out, with featherweight action the latest addition.
The fight will see Welsh star Jack Shore (17-2) take on Youssef Zalal (15-5-1) at the Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta on November 2, 2024.
News of the pairing was first noted by ESPN, the UFC’s broadcast partner, by way of their bout listing for the event.
A former Cage Warriors bantamweight champ, Shore arrived in the UFC in 2019 and won his first five fights inside the octagon. He’d then drop a fight to Ricky Simon and make the decision to return to bantamweight, where he had competed earlier in his career. Shore is 1-1 since, with a victory over Makwan Amirkhani, and most recently, a TKO loss at the hands of Brazilian Joanderson Brito.
Zalal is on his second stint with the UFC, and has won his first two fights back. Both fights ended with “The Moroccan Devil” locking up rear-naked chokes, on Billy Quarantillo and Jarno Errens, respectively.
UFC Edmonton is headlined by ex-flyweight champ Brandon Moreno taking on 125lb contender Amir Albazi, while Rose Namajunas meets Erin Blanchfield in a women’s flyweight co-main event. Derrick Lewis is also set to feature on the card, which includes the following reported match-ups:
- Brandon Moreno vs. Amir Albazi
- Erin Blanchfield vs. Rose Namajunas
- Derrick Lewis vs. Jhonata Diniz
- Caio Machado vs. Brendson Ribeiro
- Marc-André Barriault vs. Dustin Stoltzfus
- Mike Malott vs. Trevin Giles
- Ariane da Silva vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius
- Aiemann Zahabi vs. Pedro Munhoz
- Charles Jourdain vs. Victor Henry
- Alexander Romanov vs. Rodrigo Nascimento
- Serhiy Sidey vs. Garrett Armfield
- Chad Anheliger vs. Cody Gibson
- Jamey-Lyn Horth vs. Ivana Petrović
- Jack Shore vs. Youssef Zalal
