A strawweight showdown pitting Mackenzie
Dern against Jessica
Andrade is on tap for UFC 295.
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The bout was initially announced during the UFC 292 broadcast on
Saturday night. UFC 295 takes place on Nov. 11 at Madison Square
Garden in New York and is headlined by a heavyweight championship
clash between Jon Jones and
Stipe
Miocic.
Dern was successful in her first venture of 2023, as she took a
five-round verdict over Angela Hill
in the UFC Fight Night 223 headliner on May 20. The Brazilian
jiu-jitsu black belt is 8-3 during her tenure with the Las
Vegas-based promotion and owns other notable wins against Tecia
Torres, Nina Nunes
and Virna
Jandiroba.
Andrade has already fought four times in 2023. After besting
Lauren
Murphy to begin the year at UFC 283, the former strawweight
champion has lost successive bouts to Erin
Blanchfield, Xionan Yan and Tatiana
Suarez.