Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-10-01, mother’s match wasn’t particularly good: Alexey Oleynik vs Ilir Latifi gets two stars (check out our ratings for The best Mma matches of 2022).
Latifi vs Oleynik is scheduled for Saturday, October 1, at UFC Apex in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA), in a 3rd round of heavyweight (265 lbs, 120 kg); underline of Mackenzie Dern vs Xiaonan Yan – UFC Vegas 61 (also known as UFC Fight Night 211 or UFC on ESPN+ 69). Watch the video and Rate this fight!
Alexey Oleynik’s record
Jujutsu black belt, Bjj and former world combat sambo champion Aleksei Oleinik enter this bout with a record 60-16-1 (92% completion rate) and he is ranked as the 22nd heavyweight in the world.
He lost three games in a row from 2020 to 2021, the last one against Sergey Spivak (Aleksei Oleinik vs Sergey Spivak) but he came back to win with Jared Vanderaa in April 2022 (Alexey Oleynik and Jared Vanderaa).
Ilir Latifi’s record
His opponent, Ilir Latifi, has a mma record of 15-8-0 (67% Shot Rate) but he’s not ranked as he hasn’t fought since June 2021.
He has also lost three games in a row (from 2018 to 2020), most recently to Derrick Lewis (Derrick Lewis vs Ilir Latifi), but he’s back to win against Tanner Boser in June 2021 (Ilir Latifi vs Tanner Boser).
Battle card
Here’s the full UFC Vegas 61 fight card (we’ll update it as we weigh in):
KEY CARDS (live on ESPN/ESPN+)
Mackenzie Dern vs Xiaonan Yan
Randy Brown vs Francisco Trinaldo
Raoni Barcelos vs Trevin Jones
Sodiq Yusuff and Don Shainis
Viacheslav Borshchev vs Mike Davis
KEY CARDS (live on ESPN+)
John Castaneda and Daniel Gustavo Santos
Alexey Oleynik vs Ilir Latifi
Jesse Ronson vs Joaquim Silva
Krzysztof Jotko vs Brendan Allen
Julija Stoliarenko vs Chelsea Chandler
Guido Cannetti vs Randy Costa
Full match video/highlights
Here we will post a collection of the best videos of the match between Alexey Oleynik vs Ilir Latifi right after the match is over. If you watched the entire fight, you can rate it at the end of this article. (All videos are hosted on free video platforms like Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook etc and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights.com)
Result
Who won the fight between Oleynik and Latifi?
Ilir Latifi defeated Alexey Oleynik by unanimous decision. Scores are 30–27, 30–27, 30–27.
Interview after the battle
Hear what the winner or two boxers have to say after their bout, here’s Alexey Oleynik and Ilir Latifi’s UFC Vegas 61 post-fight octagon interview.
