A strawweight showdown has been added to UFC 238, as Felice Herrig will clash with the rising Yan Xiaonan on June 8 in Chicago at the United Airlines Center.
“Lil Bulldog” has won five of her eight UFC bouts, including wins over Cortney Casey and Alexa Grasso. Fighting out of China, “Fury” has started off her UFC career with three impressive wins, earning her a fight with one of the division’s stalwart competitors in Herrig.
Tickets for UFC 238, which airs live on PPV, go on sale April 5th.
Also expected to fight on UFC 238 are top ranked heavyweights Tai Tuivasa and Blagoy Ivanov, ranked women’s flyweights Katlyn Chookagian and Joanne Calderwood, in addition to a battle of strawweight contenders between Tatiana Suarez and Nina Ansaroff.