An intriguing welterweight showdown has been booked for May 21, as
Santiago
Ponzinibbio has agreed to face Michel
Pereira at a
UFC Fight Night event.
The Underground was first to report the booking. The UFC Fight
Night card is headlined by a women’s bantamweight bout between
Holly
Holm and Ketlen
Vieira but does not have an official location or venue at this
time.
Ponzinibbio will be making his first appearance of 2022 when he
meets Pereira. “The Argentine Dagger” returned after more than a
two-year hiatus in 2021, going 1-2 in the Octagon with losses to
Jingliang
Li and Geoff Neal
and a victory against Miguel
Baeza. The 35-year-old notably authored a seven-bout winning
streak in UFC competition from 2015 to 2018.
Pereira, meanwhile, has won his last four Octagon appearances. Most
recently, the 28-year-old Brazilian known as “Demolidor” garnered a
unanimous decision triumph over Andre
Fialho at UFC 270 on Jan. 22. His current run also includes
victories over the likes of Niko Price,
Kalinn
Williams and Zelim
Imadaev.