Cameron Smotherman is shooting his shot.
MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck validated with sources with understanding of the modification that Smotherman (11-4) is stepping in on less than a week’s notification as a replacement for Brady Hiestand to battle Jake Hadley (11-3) this Saturday at UFC Vegas99 The factor for Hiestand’s withdrawal was not revealed.
MMA Mania was veryfirst to report the brand-new bantamweight match.
Smotherman, 27, hasactually battled nearly solely for Fury FC, with his only endeavor exterior of the promo taking location on Dana White’s Contender Series match. In that August 2023 encounter with Charalampos Grigoriou, “The Baby-Faced Killer” fell brief in his mission for a UFC agreement after losing by 60-second TKO.
To call Smotherman’s pre-UFC profession eventful would be an understatement, as he hasactually made Missed Fists headings numerous times, consistingof an amusing tirade versus a dissenting judge, a Tyson Fury-e