Cody Stamann-Eddie Wineland Booked; ‘Robocop’ Rodrigues In at June 18 UFC Event

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— Jason House (@JasonKHouse) April 15, 2022

The Ultimate Fighting Championship card in mid-June has just experienced a few changes.

On Friday morning, the management team of Cody Stamann (19-5-1), Iridium Sports Agency, announced that he would be fighting at the UFC Fight Night card on June 18. In his bantamweight battle, he will take on longtime veteran Eddie Wineland (24-15-1).

Stamann will be looking to end a three-fight skid, where he fell short to Jimmie Rivera and Merab Dvalishvili on the scorecards, and was choked out by Said Nurmagomedov in less than a minute in January. Before the trio of setbacks, “The Spartan” had strung together an impressive ledger inside the Octagon, with five wins opposite a single defeat to current champ Aljamain Sterling, and a draw with Yadong Song up a division. Stamann has moved back and forth from bantamweight to featherweight throughout his career, and he will remain at 135 pounds for this encounter.

Wineland too has fallen on hard times as of late, with only one victory dating back to the end of 2016. A former UFC interim title challenger and the very first World Extreme Cagefighting bantamweight champion, now at 37, Wineland has suffered consecutive knockout defeats to Sean O'Malley and John Castaneda in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Across a career that began in 2003, Wineland has amassed an impressive finish rate of 80%.

Additionally, MMA Junkie first reported on Friday that Wellington Turman would no longer be competing at this event. In his stead against Julian Marquez (9-2) will be Gregory Rodrigues (11-4) at middleweight. The report has since been confirmed by Marquez on his Instagram. The UFC has not yet made public where this event will take place.

“The Cuban Missile Crisis” Marquez is still looking to get back to action for the first time in over a year, when he faces a new opponent in Rodriguez. Every one of Marquez’ career victories have come inside the distance, while the only two times he has gone to the scorecards, he has lost. Since joining the promotion in 2017 off of the first season of Dana White's Contender Series, Marquez has fought just four times, with a trio of finishes over Darren Stewart, Maki Pitolo and Sam Alvey making him one to watch despite his relative inactivity.

The hard-hitting Brazilian known as “Robocop” will be returning to the cage following a narrow split decision loss to Armen Petrosyan in February, one in which the majority of scoring media members believed Rodrigues had won. The unsuccessful effort snapped a four-fight win streak that included a pair of wins inside the Octagon, making his company debut in 2021 by snagging a decision against Dusko Todorovic. His sophomore appearance against Jun Yong Park went his way when became the first man to knock out “The Iron Turtle,” doing so in the second round, thereby advancing his own high stoppage rate to 82%.

The UFC Fight Night card on June 18 does not currently have a venue or city set, but the promotion may settle on staging it at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The headliner has not yet been made official. In addition to the previous two fights that will likely go on the main card, Damir Ismagulov will throw down with Guram Kutateladze in the lightweight division as well. Additionally, Kyle Daukaus faces Roman Dolidze and Phil Hawes will finally come to blows with Deron Winn, both at middleweight.