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Seven fights announced for WSOF 33 preliminary card including rematch between Chris Gutierrez and Timur Valiev

The MMA Report Staff

The next World Series of Fighting (WSOF) event will take place on October 7 in Kansas City and the promotion has announced seven fight bookings for the preliminary card including a bantamweight rematch between Chris Gutierrez and Timur Valiev.

WSOF officials announced the fight bookings in a press release on Thursday and the other six fights that were announced today are Jesse Brock vs. Bekbulat Magomedov, Abu Azaitar vs. Mike Arrant, Islam Mamedov vs. Alonzo Martinez, Magomed Magomedkerimov vs. Bobby Cooper, Bryce Mitchell vs. Brandon Phillips and Bruno Santos vs. Clinton Williams.

WSOF 33 will come from the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium and will be headlined by a title fight as Justin Gaethje defends the lightweight title against Ozzy Dugulubgov.

Gutierrez (9-1-1) scored a split decision victory at WSOF 28 against Valiev and he is unbeaten in his last eight fight. The defeat for Valiev (10-2) snapped a ten fight winning streak and both of his career defeats have come by decision.

The current WSOF 33: Gaethje vs. Dugulubgov fight card is below.

Main Card: (NBCSN – 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT)
Justin Gaethje (16-0) vs. Ozzy Dugulubgov (8-2)
David Branch (16-3) vs. Vinny Magalhaes (14-7)
Brian Foster (25-9) vs. Luiz Firmino (19-6)
Jason High (19-5) vs. Joao Zeferino (20-8)
John Howard (24-12) vs. Abubakar Nurmagomedov (12-1-1)
Shawn Jordan (18-7) vs. Ashley Gooch (10-4)

Preliminary Card: (WSOF.com – 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT)
Chris Gutierrez (9-1-1) vs. Timur Valiev (10-2)
Jesse Brock (22-8) vs. Bekbulat Magomedov (16-1)
Abu Azaitar (12-1-1, 1 NC) vs. Mike Arrant (15-11)
Islam Mamedov (13-1) vs. Alonzo Martinez (40-19)
Magomed Magomedkerimov (17-5) vs. Bobby Cooper (12-6)
Bryce Mitchell (6-0) vs. Brandon Phillips (6-1)
Bruno Santos (14-2) vs. Clinton Williams (11-4)

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8 Responses

  1. Whatever the WSOF is doing, it sure is doing it big. This is a high quality fight card through and through. And the Chris Gutierrez vs Timur Valiev rematch is totally justified in this case because of that gift decision given to Chris Gutierrez in the first fight. This card is worthy of the WSOF selling out the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium. Nice to see Brandon Phillips staying active on with another major MMA organization being that he just fought Chuka Willis on a Bellator preliminary card. The WSOF is doing it right and high quality for this fight card. Good luck WSOF,, I definitely will be watching this fight card.

  2. This card is full of Bellator veterans. Also a few UFC fighters. Most of WSOF roster are former Bellator and UFC fighters. They have very few home grown guys.

    LMFAO… WSOF won’t even come close to selling this out. They have terrible attendances. Their ticket prices are too high. But this is a great card tho.

    1. I really don’t care about the WSOF roster being filled with former Bellator and UFC fighters, fact is, the WSOF is another MMA organization providing jobs for MMA fighters to earn a living and provide for themselves and their families. I also look at these other MMA organizations that are trying to make their mark in the industry and with the ticket buying public and the television watching public, as they have the roster and they are all your fighters, so use them. Use them not just for the Main Television card, but use them on the preliminary card. Give the public a reason to spend their money to come out and buy tickets for your fight cards, give the television watching public a reason to tune in and watch your televised portion of your fight cards, give the public a reason to tune in and watch your preliminary fight cards online. It is a risk, but founding the WSOF was a risk. And it is a smart move to take a calculated risk to put together a good solid fight card to give yourself a chance to make money and to gauge the possibilities for your company. The risk is what? Losing money? Well, the WSOF has lost money playing it safe, so why not use your roster to its full potential and see what the WSOF has to work on as a company here and there. It takes time to get things right to make a profit as a company, so it’s best to give your company the best chance possible to make a profit. Good luck to the WSOF.

  3. I think WSOF is heading into the right direction. I hope Sam Caplan will replace Ray sefo as their official matchmaker. And have Ray Sefo be just the president.

    Jason, do you know who their COO is now that Mercsh left?

  4. If WSOF can stack their cards top to bottom for every event. Then their attendances will be up. With the right marketing. A lot of their fights cards haven’t been that good. Some have been very weak.

      1. I feel like Ali was holding WSOF back. He’s still involved with getting fighters to sign with WSOF and UFC as a manager. But I feel like he’s still working for WSOF. I think Ray Sefo is a better matchmaker than Ali. Hbu?

  5. I think Carlos Silva as the WSOF CEO has made a huge difference is the way the WSOF is running their shows now and he has made a big difference in getting the WSOF budget under control for each fight card and that is enabling Ray Sefo to be able to put the type of cards the WSOF has been putting together lately. Carlos Silva as a CEO of the WSOF doing a great job of finding out the financial cost of renting out these bigger venues and put together a plan as to how many ticket sales the WSOF would need to have to break even and how many sponsors/advertisers the WSOF can get to help offset the cost of doing their shows. So we may see the 1 900 Adult commercials during a WSOF fight card due to the time of their cards, we may see INFO-mercials of different products during a WSOF fight card due to the time slot of the WSOF fight cards. I really hope the WSOF succeeds. I think having Carlos Silva as the WSOF CEO has helped Ray Sefo tremendously in becoming a good matchmaker.

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