After a puzzled draw when fighting with Jan Blachowicz in 2022, Magomed Ankalaev was suddenly arranged in the bottom of the list of candidates who were promoted to the championship. He went through 2 matches with Johnny Walker, and now Aleksandar Rakic to meet UFC stretching standards.
Rakic has caused more or less difficult for Ankalaev in the first half. But with the bravery of a top boxer, Ankalaev regained the advantage in the second and 3rd half, thereby winning the final victory by the point. This victory also helped Ankalaev are eligible to challenge belt.
Immediately after winning Rakic, Ankalaev once again announced he wanted UFC to give Alex Pereira soon. Ankalaev affirmed that he was capable of ending the early reigning UFC champion of Light Heavyweight. But for some reason, UFC continuously let Pereira fight others.
Ankalaev's professional MMA competition is 22 matches, including 19 wins (10 no), 1 defeat, 1 draw and 1 game that does not recognize the results. The only defeat of Ankalaev took place on the day he debuted UFC in 2018. Since then, he has shown impressive performance.
Ankalaev was painted UFC at the end of 2022, after 9 consecutive victories. But in the match against Jan Blachowicz, the referees gave a very different score. In the end, Ankalaev blemowicz when each referee gave one fighter Thang, the other was drawing.