The UFC makes its debut at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 11 and the promotion added a handful of fights to the UFC 208 card Thursday.
Flyweights Ian McCall and Neil Seery were originally scheduled to fight at a UFC Fight Night event in Belfast, Northern Ireland in November but McCall fell ill one day prior to the event so the bout was rescheduled for UFC 208. McCall (13-5-1) hasn’t fought since a unanimous decision loss to John Lineker at UFC 183 nearly two years ago. The 32-year-old has had four scheduled fights fall through since his loss to Lineker.
Wilson Reis meets Ulka Sasaki in another flyweight contest. Reis (21-6) has gone 4-1 since dropping down from the bantamweight division. He was scheduled to fight Demetrious Johnson for the flyweight tile at UFC 201 in January, but Johnson was forced to withdraw from the event and Reis ended up fighting and submitting Hector Sandoval instead. With a win it’s possible Reis winds up back in the title conversation. Sasaki (19–3–2) made a successful 125-pound debut in May when he submitted Willie Gates.
A matchup between top-10 heavyweights Derrick Lewis and Travis Browne is also in the works for the card, according to ESPN.
The event is headlined by former women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm taking on Dutch kickboxer Germaine de Randamie with the UFC’s inaugural featherweight title on the line.
Here is the tentative UFC 208 fight card to date:
— Holly Holm vs. Germaine de Randamie
— Glover Teixeira vs. Jared Cannonier
— Travis Browne vs. Derrick Lewis
— Ian McCall vs. Neil Seery
— Ryan LaFlare vs. Roan Carneiro
— George Sullivan vs. Randy Brown
— Marcin Tybura vs. Luis Henrique
— Nik Lentz vs. Islam Makhachev
— Wilson Reis vs. Ulka Sasaki
