The
UFC 268 lineup continues to grow with the addition of Germaine
de Randamie vs. Irene
Aldana at bantamweight and Bobby Green
vs. Al
Iaquinta at lightweight.
The matchups were announced during the UFC on ESPN 30 broadcast on
Saturday. UFC 268 takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York
on Nov. 6 and is headlined by a welterweight championship rematch
between Kamaru
Usman and Colby
Covington. In the co-main event, Rose
Namajunas will face Weili Zhang
in a strawweight title rematch.
The UFC’s inaugural female featherweight queen, de Randamie has won
six of her last seven promotional outings. Most recently, “The Iron
Lady” submitted Julianna
Pena in the third round at UFC on ESPN 16.
Aldana, meanwhile, rebounded from a lopsided loss to Holly Holm
last October to defeat Yana
Kunitskaya by first-round technical knockout at UFC 264 on July
10. Aldana has won three of her last four fights, including a
first-round KO of Ketlen
Vieira at UFC 245.
Green dropped his second consecutive fight at UFC 265, where he
fell to Rafael
Fiziev via unanimous decision. Prior to that, “King” also lost
a three-round verdict to Thiago
Moises at UFC Fight Night 181.
Iaquinta will return to the Octagon for the first time since
October 2019, when he fell to Dan Hooker
via unanimous decision at UFC 243. The Serra-Longo Fight Team
representative has lost three of four Octagon appearances since
2018.