Edmen Shahbazyan will face Brunno Ferreira. Their fight will take place 19 September 2026 at UFC 331 in Los Angeles, USA.
Edmen Shahbazyan
After Brendan Allen gave Shahbazyan a boxing lesson, he will certainly reconsider his approach to aggressive stand-up exchanges. At the time, it seemed that Edmen himself did not understand how it was possible to apply such pressure while absorbing a barrage of counterpunches.
That is why, in the upcoming fight, he will pay much closer attention to his opponent's counter-attacking attempts, looking to create distance after each successful action of his own.
Do not think that the Golden Boy will ease off the pressure, though. On the contrary, he has already seen how helpless Brunno can be under heavy pressure, so he will try not to give him even a couple of seconds to recover.
Brunno Ferreira
He possesses devastating hooks and excellent takedown defence. Brunno earned his place in the promotion through Dana White's Contender Series and has already made a splash in the UFC, picking up a couple of Performance of the Night awards.
However, his one-dimensional style of “I hit hard, but only once a minute” ultimately let him down against elite striker Ikram Aliskerov. Ferreira was literally left stunned when Ikram came at him like a steamroller, and only came round towards the third round, when it was already too late to recover.
So the key changes ahead of his fight with the equally aggressive Shahbazyan should be counter-pressure, initiating attacks and frequent probing strikes.
Edmen Shahbazyan vs Brunno Ferreira Prediction
Clearly, the fighter who has drawn much more serious conclusions from his previous beating will succeed in this bout. We suspect that Edmen will be the one to produce the most technical, fired-up and aggressive performance.
He will create distance and attack Brunno with hook combinations, which the Brazilian inexplicably often absorbs despite his tight guard and decent front-on defence. If Ferreira once again loads up only on single power punches, he may not land on his opponent at all and take too much damage before the fight reaches its halfway point.
We suspect that Edmen's camp will try to calculate the moment when the berserker Ferreira prepares his counter-attack. If Shahbazyan does not get greedy by throwing an extra punch, engage in exchanges, and works exclusively at close and mid-range, he is fully capable of winning by decision or knocking out his opponent in the third round.
