Khalil Rountree vs. Jamahal Hill to Serve as Main Event for UFC Kansas City on April 26

Khalil Rountree and Jamahal Hill will square off in the UFC Kansas City main event.

The Las Vegas-based promotion announced the light heavyweight booking on Wednesday night. The UFC Fight Night card takes place at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 26 and will see Anthony Smith face Mingyang Zhang in his retirement bout in the evening’s 205-pound co-headliner.

Rountree is coming off a fourth-round technical knockout loss to Alex Pereira in a title bout at UFC 307 this past October. Prior to that, the 35-year-old Tiger Muay Thai representative had won five straight contests in the Octagon, finishing all of his opponents inside the distance.

A former light heavyweight champion, Hill came up short in his attempt to regain the crown at UFC 300, where he was stopped by Pereira in the opening stanza. More recently, “Sweet Dreams” suffered a third-round TKO defeat to Jiri Prochazka at UFC 311 on Jan. 18. Hill lost just one of his first eight UFC appearances before his current two-bout skid.

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