Hosseinbakhsh Safari, the Afghan MMA athlete, has announced his comeback to the fight cage on December 16, 2023, in Dusseldorf, Germany. Based in Germany, Safari will end almost two years of hiatus to face Iraqi athlete Mohammad Walid in the seventeenth edition of the National Fighting Championship (NFC).

The competition is set to take place in Dusseldorf under the National Fighting Championship (NFC) organization. The 29-year-old Afghan athlete boasts a record of nine fights in MMA, securing seven victories and enduring two defeats. Safari's last bout was on February 18, 2022, in the Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC) organization.

His opponent, 28-year-old Mohammad Walid, born in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq, holds a record of nine fights in the MMA world, with six wins and three losses. Walid's latest match took place on March 25, 2023, within the NFC organization.