Raposo vs Degli at UFC Fight Night: TUF 29's First Pick Faces Brazil's Marcos Degli

Mitch Raposo was the first overall pick on The Ultimate Fighter 29, for Team Volkanovski, and has won his last two fights on the judges' cards. On Saturday, Nov. 7, at Meta APEX in Las Vegas, he faces Brazil's Marcos Degli in a flyweight bout on the prelims of UFC Fight Night: Bonfim vs Brady.

Raposo, 27, from Fall River, fights out of New England Cartel and has competed in the UFC since June 2024. He is 11-3, with four knockouts, three submissions and four decisions, and reportedly went 6-0 as an amateur. His last two wins, in October 2025 and June 2026, were a unanimous and a split decision. His average fight lasts 13:38, 96% of his significant strikes come standing, and he avoids 61% of the significant strikes thrown at him.

Degli, 26, is the bigger man on paper: 5-foot-6 with a 67-inch reach, to Raposo's 5-foot-5 and 64.5 inches. His ufc.com profile tracks just 9:46 of fight time, in which he landed 19 of 28 significant strikes, too small a sample to read much into.

The question: can Raposo drag Degli into the kind of long fight he has won twice in a row, or does the Brazilian make use of his reach?

The prelims start at 2 p.m. Pacific time and the main card at 5 p.m. Get your seat: Raposo vs Degli tickets.