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Matchup Roundup: New UFC and Bellator fights announced in the past week (Feb. 10-16)

MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels for news to break through, it’s nearly impossible to organize.

But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got your back.

Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC and Bellator.

Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie from Feb. 3-9:

Bellator 239: Friday, Thackerville, Okla.

Bantamweight: Josh Hill (18-3 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) vs. Vinicius Zani (11-5 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) (MMA Junkie)
Welterweight: Bobby Lee (11-4 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) vs. Shamil Nikaev (9-0 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) (MMA Junkie)

UFC 248: March 7, Las Vegas

Featherweight: With Douglas Silva de Andrade out, Jamall Emmers (17-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC) steps in to fight Movsar Evloev (12-0 MMA, 2-0) (Cageside Press)

Next page: Bellator 241, UFC on ESPN+ 29

Bellator 241: March 13, Uncasville, Conn.

Lightweight: Nick Newell (16-3 MMA, 1-1 BMMA) vs. Zach Zane (14-9 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) (MMA Junkie)

Middleweight: Anatoly Tokov (29-3 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) vs. Fabio Aguiar (17-1 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) (MMA Junkie)

Women’s featherweight: Jessy Miele (9-3 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) vs. Leslie Smith (11-8-1 MMA, 1-1 BMMA) (MMA Junkie)

Welterweight: Billy Goff (2-2 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) vs. Robson Gracie (3-0 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) (MMA Junkie)

Middleweight: Romero Cotton (4-0 MMA, 4-0 BMMA) vs. Justin Sumter (7-3 MMA, 1-1 BMMA) (MMA Junkie)

Bantamweight: Johnny Campbell (20-12 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) vs. Leandro Higo (19-5 MMA, 2-3 BMMA) (MMA Fighting)

Lightweight: Nate Andrews (16-3 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) vs. Killys Mota (12-1 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) (MMA Fighting)

UFC on ESPN+ 29: March 21, London

Heavyweight: With Raphael Pessoa out, Jake Collier (11-4 MMA, 3-3 UFC) steps in to fight Tom Aspinall (7-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) (ESPN)

Next page: UFC on ESPN+ 30, UFC 249, UFC on ESPN+ 31

Belal Muhammad

UFC on ESPN+ 30: April 11, Portland, Ore.

Welterweight: Niko Price (14-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) vs. Muslim Salikhov (16-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) (ESPN)

UFC 249: April 18, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Welterweight: Lyman Good (21-5-1 MMA, 3-2 UFC) vs. Belal Muhammad (16-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) (MMA Junkie)

Middleweight: Makhmud Muradov (24-6 MMA, 2-0 UFC) vs. Karl Roberson (9-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) (Newsday)

UFC on ESPN+ 31: April 25, Lincoln, Neb.

Lightweight: Matt Frevola (8-1-1 MMA, 2-1-1 UFC) vs. Roosevelt Roberts (9-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) (MMA Junkie)

Next Page: UFC TBA, UFC 250, Bellator TBA

UFC TBA: May 2, Oklahoma City

Women’s strawweight: Claudia Gadelha (17-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) vs. Marina Rodriguez (13-0-2 MMA, 2-0-2 UFC)

Women’s bantamweight: With Duda Santana out, Vanessa Melo (10-7 MMA, 0-2 UFC) steps in to fight Sarah Alpar (9-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC) (Combate)

UFC 250: May 9, Sao Paulo

Heavyweight: Alexey Oleynik (55-13-1 MMA, 7-4 UFC) vs. Fabricio Werdum (23-8-1 MMA, 11-5 UFC) (Combate)

Bellator TBA: May 9, San Jose, Calif.

Middleweight: Douglas Lima (32-7 MMA, 14-3 BMMA) vs. Gegard Mousasi (46-7-2 MMA, 4-1 BMMA)

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