Former bantamweight queen Holly Holm
will lock horns with Yana
Kunitskaya at UFC
on ESPN 43 on March 25.
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MMAFighting.com was first to report the pairing. UFC on ESPN 43
takes place at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. A
headliner has not been announced, but the card is expected to
include a middleweight tilt between Chidi
Njokuani and Albert
Duraev as well as a women’s flyweight duel pitting Maycee
Barber against Andrea
Lee.
Holm had a two-bout winning streak snapped in her lone appearance
of 2022, as she fell to Ketlen
Vieira in a closely-contested split-decision defeat at UFC
Fight Night 206. Prior to that, the Jackson-Wink MMA standout had
posted back-to-back decision triumphs over Irene
Aldana and Raquel
Pennington.
Kunitskaya sat out the entirety of 2022 after announcing her
pregnancy with husband Thiago
Santos. In her last outing, the 33-year-old Russian suffered a
first-round TKO defeat to Aldana at UFC 264 in July 2021.