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Danny Castillo

A lightweight clash between Danny Castillo (17-7) and Rustam Khabilov (17-2) has been added to the undercard of January’s UFC 182 PPV card.

35-year old, Castillo enters the cage off the back of a razor thin split-decision loss to Tony Ferguson at UFC 177 in August. With the disappointing loss still fresh in his memory the Team Alpha Male trained fighter will look to get back to winning ways when he steps into the octagon against Khabilov.

Castillo’s 27-year old opponent Khabilov, who upon entering his last fight at UFC Fight Night 42 was riding a 6-fight win streak before succumbing to a 4th round rear naked choke at the hands of former lightweight champion Benson Henson. When the Jackson/Wink trained fighter enters cage against Castillo he will look to regain the impressive form that has seen Dagestan born fighter defeat the likes of Vinc Pichel, Yancy Medeiros and most recently Jorge Masvidal.

UFC 182 takes place on January 3, 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada and is headlined by the UFC light heavyweight title fight between champion Jon Jones and top contender Daniel Cormier.

UFC 182 Fight Card

Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier

Ronda Rousey vs Cat Zingano

Hector Lombard vs. Josh Burkman

Evan Dunham vs. Rodrigo Damm

Shawn Jordan vs. Jared Cannonier

Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Louis Gaudinot

Brad Tavares vs. Nate Marquardt

Danny Castillo vs. Rustam Khabilov

Mats Nilsson vs Omari Akhmedov