Former Legacy FC flyweight champ and current UFC 125lb contender Andrea Lee will be headed to Boston for her next fight.
On Thursday, UFC officials announced a number of bouts for the UFC 292 card on August 19 at the TD Garden in Boston, MA, including Lee (13-7) versus Brazilian Natalia Silva (15-5-1).
“KGB” Lee is currently ranked #15 in the women’s flyweight division. Silva, meanwhile, is unranked, something of a glaring oversight that could be corrected with a win come August.
Having won nine straight fights, Silva has picked up victories in her first three trips to the UFC octagon. Most recently, she landed a TKO finish against Victoria Leonardo set up with a head kick. Silva also holds wins over Tereza Bleda and current #15-ranked flyweight Jasmine Jasudavicius, in Silva’s lone UFC fight to go the distance.
Lee will be looking to snap a two-fight skid in the fight, after dropping decisions to both Viviane Araujo and Maycee Barber. Prior to that she had claimed back-to-back wins over Antonina Shevchenko and Cynthia Calvillo.
UFC 292 is set to be headlined by a pair of title fights, with Aljamain Sterling defending his bantamweight title opposite Sean O’Malley, and Weili Zhang taking on Amanda Lemos with Zhang’s strawweight belt on the line.
The following match-ups have been reported for the Boston card:
- Aljamain Sterling (c) vs. Sean O’Malley — for the UFC bantamweight championship
- Zhang Weili (c) vs. Amanda Lemos — for the UFC women’s strawweight championship
- Chris Weidman vs. Brad Tavares
- Cody Garbrandt vs. Mario Bautista
- Gerald Meerschaert vs. Andre Petroski
- Song Yadong vs. Rob Font
- Maryna Moroz vs. Karine Silva
- Gregory Rodrigues vs. Dennis Tiuliulin
- Ian Garry vs. Geoff Neal
- Andrea Lee vs. Natalia Silva
