Overview
- The light-heavyweights meet Saturday at UFC 321, with Rakic ranked No. 7 and Murzakanov entering unbeaten at 15-0.
- Rakic said he left his former gym after rewatching his Ankalaev loss and has trained in Serbia since February with a longtime friend as coach.
- He described personal sacrifices for the switch and vowed to be the first to hand Murzakanov a loss, saying he will have answers to every action.
- Murzakanov said he accepted the matchup immediately and dismissed Rakic’s adjustments as irrelevant to the fight.
- The bout signals a test of Murzakanov’s ascent and a chance for Rakic to halt a recent skid, with betting lines posting near pick’em odds.