Siyar Bahadurzada says he's signed with the UFC

Siyar Bahadurzada says he's signed with the UFC

Siyar Bahadurzada (20-4-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is apparently UFC bound.


As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported this past week, Bahadurzada said he had been offered a deal with the world's top MMA promotion, and he hinted he was likely to accept it.


Today, the reigning Shooto light-heavyweight champion and current 170-pounder took to Twitter to announce a deal has been completed.


"I signed with the UFC!" he tweeted. "I'm very excited to be a part of
the UFC and test my skills with the crème de la crème of MMA.


"I wanna thank the UFC and Dana White for this opportunity. I will shake
up the [welterweight] division!Also special thanks to my team Golden
Glory!"


A debut date and first opponent were not disclosed.

The Team Golden Glory fighter and Afghanistan native currently can be
seen as one of Jason "Mayhem" Miller's assistant coaches on "The
Ultimate Fighter 14." The confident fighter recently joined
MMAjunkie.com Radio and made a bold prediction.


"I don't promise a lot of things to people or whoever, but the one thing
I promise the fight fans here in the U.S. is that I will knock so many
people out that you will never forget my name," the 27-year-old
Bahadurzada recently said.


Bahadurzada's current six-fight win streak includes knockouts of
notables John Alessio and Derrick Noble, among others. Most recently, he
won Ultimate Glory's multi-event welterweight grand prix.


In his past 16 fights, his only losses have come to middleweight
notables Kazuo Misaki and Jorge Santiago under the World Victory
Road/Sengoku banner.


Bahadurzada agreed to a deal with Strikeforce in early 2010, though a
fight and finalized contract never materialized. He fell out of favor
with the promotion when he took his complaints public.


After Zuffa LLC, the UFC's parent company, acquired Strikeforce, Bahadurzada saw it as a ray of hope.


"I'm glad that the new company took them over and are going to send them
home with their office stools in a box in short time," Bahadurzada told
MMAjunkie.com.

Another GG fighter

In a wrestler stacked division

bobbitt15 wrote:

In a wrestler stacked division

Bet he whoops Dan Hardy.

OU wrote:

bobbitt15 wrote:

In a wrestler stacked division

Bet he whoops Dan Hardy.

Everyone can whoop Hardy now.

He always would've whooped Hardy but there will be plenty of tough style matchups for him

bobbitt15 wrote:

He always would've whooped Hardy but there will be plenty of tough style matchups for him

Both statements are true. But tell me you don't want to see him face Mein, Alves, Swick or some of these other guys that would stand and bang with him.

He also said he had signed with Strikeforce.

Yeah he'll get outwrestled, but I think think he'll put on some good fights.

Why not Amir?