Featherweights will collide Feb. 20 in Las Vegas.
Former M-1 Global featherweight champion Nate Landwehr and TUF alumnus Julian Erosa will square off at the UFC Fight Night event scheduled to take place at the UFC Apex.
Multiple people with knowledge of the matchup recently informed MMA Junkie of the booking but asked to remain anonymous as the promotion has yet to make an official announcement. MMA DNA was first to report.
Landwehr (14-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) has split his promotional outings to date. After he suffered a first-round knockout to Herbert Burns in his debut, Landwehr stormed back to defeat Darren Elkins in a bloody, one-sided unanimous decision in May.
Erosa (23-8 MMA, 2-4 UFC) is currently in the midst of a rare third UFC stint. In his second return to the promotion in June, Erosa scored one of the biggest betting upsets of 2020 in MMA when he submitted Sean Woodson in Round 2.
With the addition, the UFC Fight Night card for Feb. 20 includes:
- Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis
- Chris Daukaus vs. Aleksei Oleinik
- Darrick Minner vs. Charles Rosa
- Jai Herbert vs. Drakkar Klose
- Danny Chavez vs. Jared Gordon
- Shana Dobson vs. Casey O’Neill
- Jamall Emmers vs. Chas Skelly
- Matt Brown vs. Carlos Condit
- Vinicius Moreira vs. Ike Villanueva
- Rafael Alves vs. Mike Trizano
- Andrei Arlovski vs. Tom Aspinall
- Julian Erosa vs. Nate Landwehr
