MOSCOW, Jun 11 Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White said that he intends to organize a duel between Russian Islam Makhachev and American Beneil Dariush. «There is no decision yet, but I want to organize a duel between him (Makhachev) and Dariush,» White said in an interview on the ESPN YouTube channel. Makhachev is 30 years old, on his account of 22 wins and one loss in mixed martial arts. 33-year-old Dariush won 21 fights, lost in four, and one more fight ended in a draw. In the ranking of UFC lightweight fighters, the Russian is on the fourth line, the American is on the sixth. Earlier, the former UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov asked the leadership of the American promotion to organize a duel between Makhachev and the first rating number Charles Oliveira in the fall. Makhachev himself spoke about the desire to fight with the Brazilian.
