Andre Muniz vs. Jun Yong Park Added to UFC China on Dec. 9

A potential middleweight barnburner has been added to an Ultimate Fighting Championship card set in China this December.

Per Jun Yong Park’s (17-5) management team of First Round Management on Thursday, Park and Andre Muniz (23-6) will collide at the UFC’s return event to Shanghai on Dec. 9. The middleweights will meet, presumably inside of the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in what will be the promotion’s first show in China in four years. The matchup has since been confirmed by other outlets.

Currently the UFC’s 14th-ranked competitor at 185 pounds, Muniz started his career with the organization by amassing a five-fight win streak which included three armbars. However, the Brazilian has since been on a rough patch, suffering a pair of stoppage losses to Brendan Allen and Paul Craig this year. While “Sergipano” maintains a finish rate of 83%, however, he has never heard the final bell in defeat.

South Korea’s Park will look to enter the middleweight rankings by adding to his already impressive win streak of four straight. Park has rattled off three straight submissions over Joseph Holmes, Denis Tiuliulin and Albert Duraev in the last 11 months, all via rear-naked choke. Like his upcoming opponent, Park’s only losses in the Octagon thus far are via stoppage, as Anthony Hernandez tapped him with an anaconda choke and Gregory Rodrigues punched him out in 2019 and 2021, respectively.