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See the full story · 1 sourcesSharabutdin
Magomedov and Neiman
Gracie will meet in a grappling contest at Real American
Freestyle in Moscow.
RAF recently announced that the
Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight will face the
former Bellator
MMA and
Professional Fighters League welterweight on Sept. 5.
Magomedov last competed in June, earning a unanimous decision over
Michel
Pereira in the UFC. The Russian previously tested his grappling
skills under the Hype FC banner, taking on lightweights Arman
Tsarukyan and Edson
Barboza , with both matches ending in draws.
Gracie, meanwhile, has not competed since losing to Magomed
Umalatov in
Professional Fighters League in August 2024. The Brazilian
challenged Rory
MacDonald for the Bellator
MMA welterweight title in 2019 but came up short and went 4-5
thereafter. Gracie's most recent grappling appearance came at ADXC
1 in 2023, where he submitted Benson
Henderson .
The Magomedov-Gracie matchup joins a loaded RAF Moscow lineup
headlined by Khamzat
Chimaev vs. Tyron
Woodley .
The RAF Moscow lineup as of Aug. 24 includes: Khamzat
Chimaev vs. Tyron
Woodley
Abdulrashid Sadulaev vs. Zac Braunagel Anatoly
Malykhin vs. Pouya
Rahmani Yusuf
Raisov vs. Marif
Piraev
Zahid Valencia vs. Ibragim Kadiev
Jordan Burroughs vs. Magomed Kurbanaliev Bo
Nickal vs. Shirvani Muradov
Jason Nolf vs. Ismail Khaniev
Vito Arujau vs. Soslan Ramonov
Kyle Snyder vs. Akhmed Tazhudinov
Kyle Dake vs. Arsenii Dzhioev
Kennedy Blades vs. Vusala Parfianovich Sharabutdin
Magomedov vs. Neiman
Gracie Shara Magomedov will now face
Neiman
Gracie at RAF MOSCOW on SEP 5 😤
Tickets in bio. pic.twitter.com/gkogBZj7ps — Real
American Freestyle (@RAFWrestlingUSA)
August 24, 2026
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