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Vanessa
Demopoulos (10-5) is set to make her seventh Octagon walk
against Emily
Ducote (13-8) at a UFC
Fight Night Event scheduled to go down on May 18 at the UFC
Apex in Las Vegas.
The strawweight bout was first reported by MMAjunkie.com. Other matchups for the Fight
Night card are yet to be announced.
Demopoulos will enter the bout on the heels of a unanimous decision
victory against Kanako
Murata in October. The Factory
X product has gone 4-1 in her last five
Ultimate Fighting Championship outings, only losing a unanimous
decision loss to Karolina
Kowalkiewicz in a catchweight meeting at
UFC Fight Night 223.
. Meanwhile, Emily
Ducote will look to kick off her first promotional winning
streak after recently earning a unanimous decision victory over
Ashley
Yoder in their
UFC Fight Night 230clash. Prior to that, the former Invicta
strawweight champions suffered back-to-back decision losses at the
hands of Angela Hill
and Lupita
Godinez following a successful UFC debut against
Alliance MMA’s Jessica
Penne.