Since Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight
Tracy
Cortez last fought, her upcoming opponent has competed three
times.
Per
MMA Junkie on Thursday, Cortez (10-1) will return to the cage
to take on fellow 125er Jasmine
Jasudavicius (9-2) at
UFC Fight Night 227. This event, a Fight Night card playing out
at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, will be a rare show to feature
a championship bout without a pay-per-view attached. News of this
ranked flyweight pairing has since been confirmed by Cortez on her
social
media.
This will be Cortez’ first jaunt to the Octagon since May 2022,
where she picked up a unanimous decision over Melissa
Gatto. Since dropping her professional debut back in 2017,
Cortez has not lost. Victor of 10 straight outings, including four
in the UFC – one per year since joining the league in 2019 – Cortez
has reached the rankings courtesy of four decisions wins over the
likes of Gatto, Justine
Kish and Stephane Egger. Each of the last six appearances for
Cortez have gone to the scorecards.
While Cortez has won six straight decisions, Canada’s Jasudavicius
has not seen a fight end before the final bell since 2020 – a span
of seven fights encompassing her entire UFC tenure and beyond. As
mentioned above, Jasudavicius has stepped in the cage on three
separate occasions since Cortez’ last fight, losing to Natalia
Silva only to bounce back with a pair of victories over
Gabriella Fernandes and Miranda
Maverick.
UFC Fight Night 227 will take place in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile
Arena on Sept. 16. The main attraction will see a high-stakes
125-pound championship rematch between Alexa
Grasso and ex-champ Valentina
Shevchenko. Other bouts serving high on the billing include a
welterweight scrap between Shavkat
Rakhmonov and Kelvin
Gastelum in the co-main event, as well as Chris
Curtis vs. Anthony
Hernandez at middleweight and a 115-pound affair as Lupita
Godinez takes on Sam Hughes.