Clay
Guida and Michael
Johnson will square off at an Ultimate Fighting Championship
event on Feb. 6.
Guida recently announced the lightweight pairing on his Instagram
account. The UFC Fight Night card is expected to take place on Yas
Island in Abu Dhabi on Super Bowl weekend and is headlined by a
heavyweight clash pitting Alistair
Overeem against Alexander
Volkov.
The 38-year-old Guida has lost three of his last four Octagon
appearances. Most recently, “The Carpenter” was outpointed by
Bobby
Green at UFC on ESPN 11 on June 20. The former Strikeforce
champion is 15-14 over the course of a promotional tenure that
began in 2006 and owns wins over the likes of B.J. Penn,
Joe
Lauzon, Anthony
Pettis, Takanori
Gomi, Rafael dos
Anjos and Nate Diaz,
among others.
Johnson, meanwhile, enters the matchup on a three-bout skid, the
second such losing streak of his UFC career. In his most recent
outing, Johnson suffered a second-round submission defeat to
Thiago
Moises at UFC Fight Night 171 on May 13. “The Ultimate Fighter
12” finalist is 11-12 in the Octagon with notable victories against
Dustin
Poirier, Edson Barboa, Melvin
Guillard, Gleison
Tibau and Tony
Ferguson, to name a few.