Rising heavyweight Justin Tafa will face Marcos Rogerio de Lima at UFC 298 on Feb. 17, a number of individuals with information of the scenario instructed MMA Preventing.
The pay-per-view card is anticipated to happen in Los Angeles, Calif., and can function featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski vs. Ilia Topuria in the primary occasion.
Tafa (7-3, 1 no contest) enters the bout on a four-fight unbeaten streak with a trio of first-round knockouts over Austen Lane, Parker Porter and Harry Hunsucker. The opposite match as a brief no-contest versus Lane, as a result of an unintentional eye poke.
De Lima (21-9-1) seems to rebound from a fast stoppage defeat to Derrick Lewis in his most up-to-date octagon look in July, a loss that snapped a two-fight profitable streak over Andrei Arlovski and Waldo Cortes-Acosta.
