Brunno Ferreira Says Roman Kopylov Has Withdrawn from UFC Bout on Aug. 24

After two impressive first-round knockout wins in January and June, Brunno Ferreira was excited to return to the Octagon against Roman Kopylov at UFC Fight Night on Aug. 24.

On Monday, however, “Hulk” was informed that his Russian opponent has withdrawn from the fight.

"Once again I received not so good news,” Ferreira said in a video on Instagram. “My fight with Roman Kopylov is off. When I say the Russians don’t want to fight me, that’s the truth. Actually that's the second [time]. [Sharabutdin Magomedov] did the same. Curiously both are strikers.”

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Ferreira ended the video with a question for his followers.

"Why do you think the Russians don’t want to fight me?” he asked. “Maybe because they know how tough I am in grappling and also because I have knockout power. What you guys think?"

Shortly after the video was posted, Sherdog.com spoke to Ferreira, who revealed that his manager is negotiating to keep him on the same card against Abdul Razak Alhassan.

"He already left two fights against me,” Ferreira said of Alhassan. “I hope we can make it happen now.”

Ferreira also revealed that the promotion was willing to book the fight against Alhassan on Aug. 10, but since he is still healing from a foot injury, he’d like to keep the original date. Ferreira and Alhassan were previously scheduled to meet on May 20 and July 1 in 2023, but on both occasions the bout was scrapped. Alhassan had an abbreviated Octagon appearance on July 13, when his bout against Cody Brundage at UFC on ESPN 59 was declared a no contest after “Judo Thunder” landed multiple illegal elbows to the back of his opponent’s head.