Tai Tuivasa and Marcin Tybura will headline a UFC tournament

A heavyweight fight between Ty Tuivasa and Marcin Tybura will headline the UFC Fight Night event, which takes place March 16 in Las Vegas.

The announcement was made by UFC CEO, Dana White. The heavyweight bout was originally scheduled to take place on February 17 at UFC 298 in Anaheim.

Australian Tai Tuivasa, 30, is riding a streak of three early losses, having lost by knockouts to Cyril Gagne and Sergey Pavlovich, as well as losing by Ezekiel choke to Alexander Volkov.

Marcin Tybura, 38, will also return to the octagon after a disappointing performance, losing by technical knockout in the first round to Tom Aspinall. Prior to that, the Pole had two consecutive victories, winning decisions over Alexander Romanov and Blagoy Ivanov.

Tai Tuivasa and Marcin Tybura are currently ranked ninth and tenth in the UFC heavyweight rankings, respectively.

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