A middleweight bout has been booked for the UFC Fight Night 40 fight card in Cincinnati as Lorenz Larkin and Costas Philippou have verbally agreed to meet each other.
The fight booking was announced by the UFC on Sunday morning.
UFC Fight Night 40 takes place from the U.S. Bank Arena on May 10th and tickets for the event will go on sale on March 21st.
Larkin (14-2, 1NC) made his UFC debut last year and has lost two of his three fights in the organization. He is coming off a decision defeat to Brad Tavares at UFC Fight Night 35 and both of his defeats in the UFC have come by decision.
Philippou (12-4, 1NC) won five of his first six fights in the UFC before losing his last two fights. His most recent defeat came in January against Luke Rockhold as he was defeated by knockout for the first time in his career.
The current UFC Fight Night 40 fight card is below and stay tuned to TheMMAReport.com for more fight announcements for this card.
Soa Palelei (20-3) vs. Ruan Potts (8-1)
Ben Wall (7-1-1) vs. Justin Salas (11-5)
Ed Herman (21-10, 1NC) vs. Rafael Natal (17-5-1)
Nik Lentz (24-6-2, 1NC) vs. Manny Gamburyan (13-8)
Kyoji Horiguchi (12-1) vs. Darrell Montague (13-3)
Chris Cariaso (16-5) vs. Louis Smolka (7-0)
Eddie Wineland (21-9-1) vs. Johnny Eduardo (26-9)
Erik Koch (14-3) vs. Daron Cruickshank (14-4)
Lorenz Larkin (14-2, 1NC vs. Costas Philippou (12-4, 1NC)