{"id":369648,"date":"2020-11-30T05:49:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=369648"},"modified":"2020-11-30T05:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:49:21","slug":"marvin-vettori-issues-statement-after-accepting-jack-hermansson-fight-italy-will-have-a-ufc-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/marvin-vettori-issues-statement-after-accepting-jack-hermansson-fight-italy-will-have-a-ufc-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Vettori issues statement after accepting Jack Hermansson fight: “Italy will have a UFC world champion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian middleweight contender Marvin Vettori has stepped in<\/a> on one week’s notice to replace Kevin Holland against the No. 4-ranked Jack Hermansson.<\/p>\n

It will be the second consecutive change of opponent for “The Italian Dream”, in the span of just over two months.<\/p>\n

The Mezzocorona native was initially slated to clash against Russian veteran Omari Akhmedov<\/a> on December 12 at UFC 256. Then, for undisclosed reason, the UFC decided to match Vettori against Brazilian Jiu Jitsu ace\u00a0Jacare Souza<\/a>, still on December 12.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, though, the news<\/a> of Kevin Holland testing positive to COVID-19 emerged, and both Vettori and Hermansson accepted the fight each other on short notice.<\/p>\n

After the news broke, Marvin Vettori’s trainer, Emanuele Lochner, released a statement<\/a> detailing how the negotiations went.<\/p>\n

“As you all know, Marvin was scheduled to fight against Jacar\u00e9 on December 12, but last night he got a call asking him if he wanted to fight against Hermansson,” Lochner said via his personal page The Scramble Show. “Marvin already accepted, but we had to wait until Hermansson woke up. He accepted too, so now Marvin will fight on this Saturday, December 5, in a 5-round main event against Jack Hermansson.”<\/p>\n

This will be the first ever Ultimate Fighting Championship event headlined by an Italian-born fighter. Prior to this, only Alessio Sakara, Danilo Belluardo and Vettori himself, served as co-main events in a UFC card.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Kings MMA representative took on his social media to issue a statement about how big this is for the Italian scene and for himself.<\/p>\n

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