Tecia
Torres will square off against Mackenzie
Dern in a matchup of ranked strawweights at UFC
273.
Torres announced the matchup Wednesday on social media. UFC 273
takes place at an as yet to be announced venue and is headlined by
a featherweight title clash between Alexander
Volkanovski and Chan Sung
Jung. In the co-main event, Aljamain
Sterling and Petr Yan will
lock horns in a bantamweight championship rematch.
After struggling through a four-fight losing streak from 2018 to
2019, Torres has righted the ship the past two years. “The Tiny
Tornado” is in the midst of a three-fight winning streak that
includes decision wins over Brianna
Van Buren and Angela Hill
as well as a stoppage of Sam Hughes.
The Invicta FC veteran was victorious in six of her first seven UFC
appearances before the aforementioned skid, earning wins over the
likes of Michelle
Waterson, Bec
Rawlings and Hill.
Dern, meanwhile, is coming off a unanimous decision defeat against
strawweight contender Marina
Rodriguez in the UFC Fight Night 194 main event this past
October. That halted a four-fight winning streak for the Brazilian
jiu-jitsu black belt, who bested the likes of Nina Nunes,
Virna
Jandiroba, Randa
Markos and Hannah
Cifers during her streak.