A flyweight clash pitting Alex Perez
against Matt
Schnell has been rebooked for UFC 271.
Promotion officials recently announced the rescheduled 125-pound
bout. Perez and Schnell were supposed to square off at UFC 269, but
the bout was canceled when Schnell was not medically cleared to
compete. UFC 271
takes place at the Toyota Center in Houston on Feb. 12 and is
expected to be headlined by a middleweight title rematch between
Israel
Adesanya and Robert
Whittaker.
Perez will return to action for the first time since falling to
Deiveson
Figueiredo via first-round submission in a flyweight title bout
at UFC 255. Prior to that, the Team Oyama representative had been
victorious in six of his first seven promotional appearances.
Schnell, meanwhile, has lost two of his last three UFC bouts. Most
recently, “Danger” dropped a three-round verdict to Rogerio
Bontorin at UFC 262 on May 15. Schnell is 5-4 in the Octagon
overall, including a four-fight winning streak from October 2017 to
August 2019.