A lightweight bout has been added to UFC 203 in Cleveland on September 10 as Damir Hadzovic will meet Yusuke Kasuya on the preliminary card.
The fight booking was recently added to the official fight card on the UFC website.
UFC 203 will come from the Quicken Loans Arena and will be headlined by a title fight as Stipe Miocic defends the UFC heavyweight title against Alistair Overeem.
Hadzovic (10-3) lost his UFC debut earlier this year as he lost to Mairbek Taisumov by knockout at UFC Fight Night 86. The defeat snapped a six fight winning streak and eight of his ten wins have come by stoppage. Kasuya (9-2-2) also lost his UFC debut as he was defeated by Nick Hein by decision at UFC Fight Night 75 last year. Prior to entering the UFC, he was unbeaten in his previous four fights and eight of his nine wins have come by submission.
The current UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem fight card is below.
Stipe Miocic (15-2) vs. Alistair Overeem (41-14, 1NC)
Fabricio Werdum (20-6-1) vs. Ben Rothwell (36-10)
Bethe Correia (9-2) vs. Jessica Eye (11-5, 1NC) *
Mairbek Taisumov (26-5) vs. Nik Lentz (26-7-2, 1NC)
Damir Hadzovic (10-2) vs. Yusuke Kasuya (9-2-2)
* – Not officially announced by the UFC.