Aspen Ladd is back at bantamweight and draws a top-five name for her next Octagon appearance.
Carlos Contreras Legaspi of ESPN Deportes reported on Thursday that a fight between Ladd and Irene Aldana is being added to UFC 273, the upcoming pay-per-view event purportedly expected to take place on April 9 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Ladd has not recorded a win at bantamweight since her third-round technical knockout of Yana Kunitskaya at UFC on ESPN: Overeem vs. Rozenstruik two years ago. The No. 4 ranked contender was then forced out of action for about a year because she suffered a torn ACL and MCL in her knee during a training session.