Mateusz Gamrot Replaces Dan Hooker Against Jalin Turner At UFC 285

Mateusz Gamrot has stepped up to replace Dan Hooker against Jalin Turner at UFC 285 on March 4th in Las Vegas.

A hand injury had forced Hooker to withdraw from the originally scheduled fight, but the card hasn’t taken a hit as a result of that as his new replacement Gamrot is actually four places above him in the lightweight rankings at No.7.

The 32-year-old Gamrot is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Beneil Dariush last time out in October of last year, but prior to that he had been on a four-fight winning streak, beating the likes of Scott Holtzman, Jeremy Stephens, Carlos Diego Ferreira and Arman Tsarukyan along the way.

On a little under three weeks notice he’ll now be fighting the 10th ranked Turner, who is currently in the midst of a five fight unbeaten stretch that included wins over Jamie Mullarkey and Brad Ridell last year.

with Gamrot vs. Turner set, UFC 285 proceeds with a card that’s fronted by an interim heavyweight title fight between Jon Jones and Ciryl Gane along with a women’s strawweight title bout that sees Valentina Shevchenko defend her belt against Alexa Grasso.

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