A UFC card scheduled for Mexican Independence Day is starting to take shape.
Multiple people familiar with the bout have confirmed to MMA Fighting that flyweight contenders Tracy Cortez and Jasmine Jasudavicius will face off in Las Vegas on September 16. Heading the fight card is a women’s flyweight title rematch between champion Alexa Grasso and former champion Valentina Shevchenko. MMA Junkie was the first to report the news.
Undefeated (10-1) since her professional debut, Cortez joined the UFC in 2019, where she competes as a heavyweight and scoring decision wins over Vanessa Melo and Stephanie Egger. Cortez then fell down to flyweight, where she won two straight decision wins, most recently by defeating Melissa Gatto at UFC 274. The win gave the 29-year-old Cortez No. 14 in the UFC’s flyweight rankings, and she looks to continue her rise.
Making her UFC debut just last year, the 34-year-old Jasudavicius (9-2, who has been going through things is much tougher. After winning her UFC debut against Kai Hansen, she dropped her decision in favor of Natalya Silva in her next fight. It’s been Smooth sailing for Jasudavicius since then, however, she has racked up back-to-back fight victories against Gabriela Fernandez and Miranda Maverick this year, the latter of which has moved her to 15th in the UFC rankings.
Aside from the planned women’s flyweight fight, the event also features a pivotal welterweight bout between Shavkat Rakhmonov and Kelvin Gastelum, and the middleweight title between Chris Curtis and Anthony Hernandez.
Mike Heck contributed to this report.