Karolina Kowalkiewicz is wasting no time moving on from a loss in her most recent fight.
On Tuesday, the UFC announced that Kowalkiewicz is set to fight Alexa Grasso in a strawweight bout on June 8 at UFC 238 in Chicago.
Kowalkiewicz, 33, is coming off a critical loss to Michelle Waterson on March 30 at UFC on ESPN 2. The unanimous-decision victory potentially set up Waterson for a title shot. For Kowalkiewicz (12-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC), who’s No. 14 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie strawweight rankings, it was her second consecutive defeat. She’s 2-4 in her last six fights after opening her career 10-0.
Grasso, 25, will compete for the first time in over a year because of a combination of injury and scratched fights. She lost to Tatiana Suarez via first-round submission last May and has been on the shelf since. Grasso (10-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC) had been scheduled to fight last August vs. Angela Hill but pulled out because of a knee injury. Grasso has had two other fight bookings fall through since then. She’ll enter the fight with Kowalkiewicz having lost two of her last three bouts after opening her career 9-0.
The UFC 238 lineup now includes:
- Henry Cejudo vs. Marlon Moraes – for vacant bantamweight title
- Champ Valentina Shevchenko vs. Jessica Eye – for women’s flyweight title
- Nina Ansaroff vs. Tatiana Suarez
- Katlyn Chookagian vs. Joanne Calderwood
- Blagoy Ivanov vs. Tai Tuivasa
- Calvin Kattar vs. Ricardo Lamas
- Jimmie Rivera vs. Petr Yan
- Pedro Munhoz vs. Aljamain Sterling
- Alexa Grasso vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
For more on UFC 238, visit the UFC Rumors section of the site.
