According to the diego Lopes boxer, he was chosen to be a preparatory fighter for the UFC 308 event match. This is also the decisive match for the UFC championship of the weight class featherweight.
After Lopes shared this information on his personal page, many international media channels have confirmed. The UFC 308 event took place on October 26 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. With Lopes being chosen as a preparatory boxer, he could be given priority to the belt for Alexander Volkanovski.
Diego Lopes was born in 1994, a Brazilian boxer. He participated in the UFC fighter selection event in 2021, but received failure. Two years later, Diego Lopes was signed by UFC. He launched UFC with another failure, when losing to Movsar Evlev at UFC 288.
But since that defeat, Diego Lopes has gradually proved the possibility in the UFC arena. He has 5 consecutive victories in the past 14 months. In 2024, Lopes played 3 matches in 5 months and won. That helped him rise to the strongest group of UFC fighters.
In the last match of Diego Lopes, this boxer won against Brian Ortega at UFC 306. That victory helped him gain 10 steps on the UFC rankings, and ranked third in the weight of Featherweight. He just stands under Alexander Volkanovski, Max Holloway and the Ilia Topuria champion.