{"id":389279,"date":"2021-07-01T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=389279"},"modified":"2021-07-01T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:53:15","slug":"nathaniel-wood-returns-to-action-in-london-on-september-4-faces-jonathan-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nathaniel-wood-returns-to-action-in-london-on-september-4-faces-jonathan-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Wood returns to action in London on September 4, faces Jonathan Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bantamweight clash between Nathaniel Wood (17-5 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Jonathan Martinez (13-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) is in the works, sources with knowledge of the situation informed <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPENN.com<\/a>. The sources asked for anonymity since the news hasn\u2019t been officially confirmed yet.<\/p>\n<p>The contracts have not been signed, but it seems it&#8217;s in the promotion plans to book this fight in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/events\/79654-ufc-fight-night\">London<\/a>, for September 4.<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Wood made his UFC debut three years ago, in June 2018, after an impressive run in one of the most relevant European mixed martial arts promotions, Cage Warriors. In fact, the British fighter was able to capture the promotion&#8217;s 135lbs gold and successfully defended it twice, before inking a deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Since his promotional debut, Wood racked up a positive record of four victories and two defeats. &#8220;The Prospect&#8221; is now returning to fight in his home country since March 2019, when he faced Jos\u00e9 Alberto Qui\u00f1\u00f3nez and submitted the latter in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>The California-born bantamweight Jonathan Martinez competed for the first time in the UFC in 2018 too, after cutting his teeth in the regional American scene, competing for local promotions such as Legacy Fighting Championship, Fury Fighting Championship, as well as Combate Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Both fighters are coming off of a loss and are going to try and bounce back in the winning column. The &#8220;Dragon&#8221;, in fact, was already campaigning for a ranked opponent after his unanimous decision victory over Thomas Almeida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully it puts me in the top-15 or gets me a ranked opponent,\u201d said Martinez before his last fight against Davey Grant during an <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/jonathan-martinez-expects-a-good-fight-for-the-fans-against-davey-grant-wants-ranked-opponent-with-a-win\/\">interview<\/a> on Just Scrap Radio with BJPENN.com&#8217;s own Cole Shelton.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Jonathan Martinez was stopped by Grand in the second round, and he&#8217;ll now try to climb the bantamweight division ladder facing another Breton fighter in Nathaniel Wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bantamweight clash between Nathaniel Wood (17-5 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Jonathan Martinez (13-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) is in the works, sources with knowledge of the situation informed BJPENN.com. 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The contracts have not been signed, but it seems it&#8217;s in the promotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54479,"featured_media":389282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10086,43878,39610],"tags":[83168,83167],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nathaniel Wood returns to action in London on September 4, faces Jonathan Martinez | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A bantamweight clash between Nathaniel Wood (17-5 MMA) and Jonathan Martinez (13-4 MMA) is in the works, sources informed BJPENN.com.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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