Canada’s Jasmine Jasudavicius will roll out the welcome mat (not literally) for Mayra Bueno Silva’s drop back to flyweight later this year.
Jasudavicius (12-3), ranked #13 in the women’s flyweight division, will face Brazil’s Bueno Silva (10-4-1, 1NC) at a UFC Fight Night event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on February 1, 2025.
Cageside Press confirmed the match-up with sources familiar with the situation, following an initial report by Ag.Fight.
The fight finds Jasudavicius on a roll, having won all three of her fights in 2024. She started the year at UFC 297 in Toronto, where she finished a blown up Priscila Cachoeira by TKO, after Cachoeira had come into Fight Week so heavy that the bout was shifted to bantamweight.
At a Fight Night card in July, the Southern Ontario-based fighter won a decision over replacement Fatima Kline; earlier this month, Jasudavicius earned her second post-fight bonus of the year by submitting Ariane Da Silva (owned of the UFC’s 2020 Submission of the Year) in Edmonton.
Overall, it’s been a stellar year for the Canadian, and that has landed her a shot against a former title challenger/contender.
Bueno Silva actually shared the UFC 297 card with Jasmine Jasudavicius this past January, but came up short in a bantamweight title fight with Raquel Pennington. At UFC 303 in July, she suffered her second straight setback, coming up short against Macy Chiasson.
“Sheetara” fought at flyweight outside the UFC in 2016, and returned to the weight class for a one-off fight against another Canadian, Gillian Robertson, in 2018 under the UFC banner. She lost that fight via arm-bar, but stuck with 125lbs under moving back up to bantamweight in 2022.
