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the Russian fighter of the heavy UFC division, Alexey Oleinik has extended his contract with the promotion.

this was reported by the athlete on his page in Instagram. “Sign a new agreement – said Olejnik. – When writing a novel, I feel like this.”

Oleinik is a veteran of MMA, he began to hold fights in mixed martial arts back in the 90-ies of the last century. Just on account of his 59 victories, 13 defeats and one draw.

In the UFC he came in 2014. In his first match he branded choke won the U.S. representative Anthony Hamilton. Since then, Olejnik under the auspices of the UFC has played 12 matches in which he scored 8 victories.

currently, he is the 11th number one of the heavyweights. The next opponent of the Russian will become the fourth number one UFC heavyweight derrick Lewis. The fight will take place on August 8.