Tecia
Torres and Angela Hill
will run it back at UFC
256.
MMAjunkie.com was first to report the strawweight rematch. The
two fighters initially squared off at UFC 188, with Torres winning
a unanimous decision.
UFC 256 is expected to take place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on
Dec. 12 and features a women’s featherweight title tilt between
Amanda
Nunes and Megan
Anderson along with a bantamweight championship clash pitting
Petr
Yan against Aljamain
Sterling.
Torres snapped a four-bout skid at UFC on ESPN 11, where she
outpointed Brianna
Van Buren on June 20. Torres’ slump prior to that victory
included losses to three current or former champions: Weili
Zhang, Joanna
Jedrzejczyk and Jessica
Andrade. Torres owns notable wins over the likes of Michelle
Waterson, Felice
Herrig, Rose
Namajunas and Paige
VanZant over the course of her professional career.
When she faced Torres at UFC 188, Hill was in just the third bout
of her professional career. She would be released by the promotion
later in 2015 but returned following a four-fight winning streak
that included a championship reign in Invicta FC. Hill has gone 6-7
during her second Octagon stint and has established herself as one
of the organization’s most active fighters, competing four times
thus far in 2020.