Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-09-07, disappointing fight between Curtis Blaydes and Shamil Abdurakhimov: it gets two stars.

Curtis Blaydes entered this fight with a professional record of 11-2-0 (73% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he is ranked as the No.8 heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Stipe Miocic). He lost the rematch with Francis Ngannou last year (Curtis Blaydes vs Francis Ngannou 2) but he came back to win against Justin Willis in 2019 (Curtis Blaydes vs Justin Willis).
His opponent, Shamil Abdurakhimov, has a mma record of 20-4-0 (65% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.13 in the same weight class. He lost to Derrick Lewis in 2016 (Derrick Lewis vs Shamil Abdurakhimov) but since then he has won over Chase Sherman, Andrei Arlovski (Andrei Arlovski vs Shamil Abdurakhimov) and Marcin Tybura (Marcin Tybura vs Shamil Abdurakhimov). Blaydes vs Abdurakhimov is on the undercard of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Dustin Poirier – UFC 242. Watch the video and rate this fight!