After making a winning return to the cage at Brave CF 46, Russian flyweight contender Ali Bagautinov is targeting championship glory, and hopes to go through a fellow former UFC contender to do it. Bagautinov (19-7) returned to the sport after a 15-month hiatus and defeated Oleg Lichkovakha in the co-main event of Brave CF 46 and declared his intention to join the field for the Bahraini promotion’s upcoming flyweight tournament. Now, Brave CF officials have confirmed that Bagautinov has been signed to compete in the tournament, which also includes Jose Torres, Zach Makovsky, Dustin Ortiz and Velimurad Alkhasov. “Puncher” has already made clear who he hopes to face in the tournament as, after his win over Lichkovakha, he named Ortiz (19-8) as the man he most wants to tangle with inside the cage. “I came here to win,” he said
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