Overview
- RAF announced on Sunday, Aug. 9 that former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold will face Joe Pyfer in a catchweight wrestling match at RAF 13 on Sept. 19 at Miami’s Watsco Center.
- The match is a catchweight wrestling bout, meaning the competitors will meet at a nonstandard weight class on a wrestling rules card rather than in MMA.
- Rockhold enters RAF 13 seeking his first win in the promotion after losing his RAF debut to Colby Covington by technical fall and recording few wins across other combat formats over the past eight years.
- Pyfer will make his RAF debut coming off a high-profile knockout of Israel Adesanya in the UFC and arrives as a rising top-15 185-pound contender with growing crossover appeal.
- The fight joins a stacked RAF schedule — RAF 12 is set for Aug. 22 in Cleveland and RAF 13 is headlined by Colby Covington vs. Belal Muhammad — as RAF leans on recognizable MMA names and Fox Nation distribution to expand its audience and live events.