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One of these talented Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweights may
be in shouting distance of a title shot with a win in this
matchup.
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Back in May, Instagram account MMA Fight Universe
first posted of the renewed flyweight encounter between Alexa
Grasso (14-3) and Viviane
Araujo (11-3). The fight was initially set for UFC 270, but
Araujo withdrew from the pairing due to an injury. Grasso has since
confirmed the newly remade bout on Thursday on her
Instagram Stories. They will come to blows at a currently
unnamed UFC
Fight Night event on Aug. 13, one that will likely go down
inside of the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Grasso is currently riding the longest win streak of her UFC
career, having claimed a pair of decisions over Ji Yeon Kim
and Maycee
Barber in 2020 and 2021, respectively, before tapping Joanne Wood
in March. The rear-naked choke of Wood was her first finish since
joining the roster in 2016, and her first overall stoppage since
knocking out Alida Gray in
2014. It also marked the first time she had ever landed a
submission.
Araujo rebounded from a 2021 decision loss to Katlyn
Chookagian by taking a relatively one-sided decision over
Andrea
Lee that saw her pick up a 10-8 Round 2 on two official
scorecards. In her last six outings, “Vivi” has left her fight in
the hands of the judges, winning four over the likes of Alexis
Davis and Roxanne
Modafferi while falling short to Jessica Eye
and the aforementioned Chookagian. The Brazilian did burst onto the
scene in 2019 with a one-punch knockout of Talita
Bernardo at UFC 237 in the bantamweight division.
There is currently no headliner announced for the UFC event on Aug.
13, and it is expected that Grasso-Araujo could serve as high as
the co-main slot. Other key matchups on the card include a
bantamweight battle between Aspen Ladd
and Sara
McMann, as well as a middleweight style matchup between
submission specialist Gerald
Meerschaert and striker Bruno
Silva.