If she can reach the limit, Ultimate Fighting Championship vet Cynthia
Calvillo will try to jump-start her career back down at 115
pounds.
Per ESPN
Deportes on Thursday night, the UFC’s no. 14-ranked flyweight Calvillo
(9-5-1) will be returning to the strawweight division on April 8.
At the event tentatively called UFC 287,
she will be greeted by Lupita
Godinez (8-3), who has also bounced back and forth in divisions
as well. Godinez confirmed on her
Instagram Stories shortly after its announcement that this
fight is official. The destination of this match and event is not
yet on the books, although it is rumored to be going down at the
Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
This will be Calvillo’s first jaunt back to strawweight since late
2019, where she missed weight by nearly five pounds and fought to a
draw against Marina
Rodriguez. Her first UFC fight at 125 pounds went in her favor,
as she topped the heavy Jessica Eye
by decision to earn a place among the top five. Four subsequent
losses over the last two years to Katlyn
Chookagian, Jessica
Andrade, Andrea Lee
and Nina
Nunes have sent her tumbling down the rankings and forcing a
division change. Although she has struggled as of late, her ledger
does include victories over the likes of Joanne Wood,
the aforementioned Eye and Montana
De La Rosa – with the latter coming prior to her UFC debut.
Godinez last competed in August, taking a short-notice match
against Angela Hill
at 120 pounds and losing in a nailbiter. “Loopy” introduced herself
to the UFC in 2021 by falling short by close split decision to
former title challenger Jessica
Penne. A subsequent armbar over Silvana
Gomez Juarez lifted her into a flyweight match seven days later
against Luana
Carolina, but she suffered a defeat. Godinez came into the Hill
fight on a two-fight win streak, with wins at 115 pounds over
Konklak
Suphisara and Ariane
Carnelossi boosting her stock to that point.