Former UFC lightweight champion Peter Yan, ranked fifth in the division’s rankings, will not return to the octagon until the end of this year.
This was announced by the head of the RCC league and club “Archangel Michael”, Nikolai Klimenko.
“He will definitely not bat in December,” Klimenko said in an interview Meta MMA. “The main thing is for him to come back, and it doesn’t matter anymore with whom. At the moment he is rehabbing, recovering. He’s had a lot of injuries and he wasn’t in the shape that a lot of people think he is.”
“Right now he’s not in the title race and he can approach his next fight with peace of mind. I’m sure that no matter who he fights, he always has a chance to break into the top.”
A few days earlier, rumors circulated online that the Russian would fight next on December 9 at the UFC China event against seventh-ranked Song Yadong.
In March 2021, Peter Yan lost his UFC flyweight championship belt due to a disqualification after misjudging Aljamain Sterling’s position and hitting him with a banned knee strike. After winning the interim title in a fight with Corey Sandhagen, the Russian fighter came out for a rematch with the champion, to whom he lost by split decision over five rounds. After that Yan suffered two more defeats, losing by split decision to Sean O’Malley and by unanimous decision to Merab Dvalishvili.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/32707-vozvrashchenie-petra-yana-v-boi-otlozheno-na-neopredelennyj-srok.html?rand=19907
