Alex
Oliveira will lock horns with Randy Brown
in a welterweight scrap at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event
on Feb. 27.
Multiple outlets confirmed the booking following an initial report
from
Combate . UFC Fight Night is headlined by a light heavyweight
tilt pitting Dominick
Reyes against Jiri
Prochazka. A location for the event has not been formally
announced.
Oliveira, 32, had a two-bout winning streak snapped at UFC 254,
where he was submitted in the opening stanza by Shavkat
Rakhmonov on Oct. 24. The Brazilian “Cowboy” is 11-7-1 with one
no contest during his tenure with the Las Vegas based
promotion.
Brown is coming off a second-round KO defeat to Vicente
Luque at UFC Fight Night 173 on Aug. 1. Prior to that, the
30-year-old Jamaican had scored back-to-back finishes of Bryan
Barberena and Warlley
Alves in the Octagon.