A lightweight bout has been added to the UFC on FOX 20 preliminary card on July 23 in Chicago as Tony Martin will look for his third win in the UFC when he faces Michel Prazeres.
The fight booking was announced by the UFC on Tuesday.
UFC on FOX 20 will come from the United Center and will be headlined by former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm returning for the first time since losing the title in March as she faces Valentina Shevchenko.
Martin (10-3) is coming off a technical submission against Felipe Olivieri at UFC on FOX 18 in January and he is 2-3 in the UFC. Both of his wins in the promotion have come by submission and all eight of his stoppage victories are by submission. Prazeres (19-2) has won three of his five fights in the UFC and is coming off a split decision win in November against Valmir Lazaro at UFC Fight Night 78. All three of his wins in the UFC have come by decision and two of them have come by split decision.
The current UFC on FOX 20: Holm vs. Shevchenko fight card is below.
Holly Holm (10-1) vs. Valentina Shevchenko (12-2)
Anthony Johnson (21-5) vs. Glover Teixeira (25-4)
Edson Barboza (17-4) vs. Gilbert Melendez (22-5)
Francis Ngannou (7-1) vs. Bojan Mihajlovic (10-3)
Ryan LaFlare (12-1) vs. Alexander Yakovlev (23-6-1)
Frankie Saenz (11-3) vs. Eddie Wineland (21-11-1)
Alex Oliveira (13-3-1) vs. James Moontasri (9-3)
Felice Herrig (10-6) vs. Kailin Curran (4-2)
Darren Elkins (20-5) vs. Godofredo Pepey (13-3)
Tony Martin (10-3) vs. Michel Prazeres (19-2)
Hector Urbina (25-9) vs. George Sullivan (17-5)
Luis Henrique (8-2) vs. Dmitry Smolyakov (8-0)