A featherweight clash between two former
Dana White’s Contender Series competitors has been added to the
upcoming
UFC
Fight Night
event on June 15 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Lucas
Almeida (14-3) will lock horns with
Timothy
Cuamba (8-2) in what will mark the latter’s first featherweight
outing under the
Ultimate Fighting Championshipbanner. The news was first
reported on
X (formerly known as Twitter) by MMAHeads. The
bout was subsequently confirmed by Almeida on his social media
handles.
Following a successful promotional debut against
Michael
Trizano in June 2022, Almeida is now on a two-fight skid. The
Brazilian succumbed to a Round 2 arm-triangle submission in his
sophomore UFC outing against Pat Sabitini in June 2023 followed by
a Round 1 technical knockout loss suffered at the hands of
Andre Fili at
UFC 296 in December last year.
Meanwhile, Cuamba is coming off a hard-fought split-decision loss
to
Bolaji Oki
in a short notice promotional debut at lightweight
UFC Fight Night 236 in February.
The Fight Night card will also feature
Alex Perez
vs.
Tagir
Ulanbekov at flyweight and
Ikram
Aliskerov taking on
Andre Muniz
at middleweight.