Auckland\u2019s City Kickboxing<\/a> and is a co-owner of Rosedale\u2019s Unity MMA, joins the promotion with a modest 4-2 professional record, though he has had plenty of experience as an amateur and has shown his ability as a fight finisher, including two wins by spinning backfist.<\/p>\n![\"City]()
City Kickboxing-trained middleweight Cameron Rowston will also fight at UFC Perth on May 2. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
With Rahiki being an all-action fighter who is willing to walk through the fire to put his opponents away, Schmid knows exactly the sort of fight he is in for when he steps inside the octagon on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they [the UFC] came to me because I\u2019m experienced,\u201d Schmid said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been in the sport since [I was] 8 years old and you know, even in my pro career and those losses I had, like they were against tough opponents and I\u2019m well-tested, you know, and obviously well-skilled. So, I think there\u2019s a reason why the best coach in the world and the best team in the world gave me this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
He will join City Kickboxing teammates Brando Pericic and Cameron Rowston on the card, with the two Auckland-based Australians looking to continue their unbeaten beginnings with the promotion.<\/p>\n
Heavyweight Pericic will attempt to take Shamil Gaziev\u2019s spot in the top-15 rankings after back-to-back first-round knockouts, while Rowston meets Poland\u2019s Robert Bryczek in the middleweight division.<\/p>\n
Rowston and Bryczek both come in after knockout wins in their last outings, and Rowston is looking to make it three from three to work towards a shot at the rankings for himself.<\/p>\n
![\"UFC]()
UFC heavyweight Brando Pericic will look to earn a spot in the top-15 rankings on Saturday night. Photo \/ Annaleise Shortland<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is quite a big test that the UFC is giving me,\u201d Rowston said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a bit of a veteran. He\u2019s had a lot of high-level fights on the European scene and, and coming over to the UFC, he\u2019s basically been operating at that UFC level for a while over in the Oktagon shows in Europe and stuff like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to give me a real good test, and I think I get past him and the UFC are going to be putting a little more investment in me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christopher Reive<\/a> joined the Herald sports team in 2017, bringing the same versatility to his coverage as he does to his sports viewing habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Schmid had to race around to make sure everything was in order; signing paperwork, getting medical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3110,3120,3125,3132,3115,1638,3123,3114,3122,3119,3109,3111,3130,3116,3106,3113,3127,3121,335,3112,3107,3129,3131,3128,3124,3117,3108,1412,3118,3126],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-against","tag-beautiful","tag-better","tag-change","tag-days","tag-debut","tag-experience","tag-four","tag-human","tag-its","tag-make","tag-marwan","tag-moment","tag-notice","tag-ollie","tag-on","tag-only","tag-part","tag-perth","tag-rahiki","tag-schmid","tag-single","tag-something","tag-takes","tag-that","tag-the","tag-to","tag-ufc","tag-up","tag-worse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}