Alexa Grasso, UFC 306 ceremonial weigh-in Credit score: Gabriel Gonzalez/Cageside Press
Former UFC girls’s flyweight champion Alexa Grasso will return to motion at UFC 315 in Montreal.
Introduced by the promotion through Canadian broadcaster SportsNet, Grasso (16-4-1) will face Natalia Silva (18-5-1) on the Pay-Per-View occasion in Montreal, Quebec on Could 10, 2025.
The struggle would be the first bout again for Grasso since her trilogy of fights with rival Valentina Shevchenko. The 31-year previous from Mexico shocked (and for as soon as, that’s not hyperbole) the MMA world when she dethroned “Bullet” care of a face crank submission of their first assembly at UFC 285 in March of 2023. A rematch adopted, with the pair battling to a attract September of that yr.
A full 12 months later, and after a training stint on The Final Fighter, the duo met for a 3rd time at UFC 306 (Noche UFC) at The Sphere in Las Vegas, with Shevchenko successful her belt again care of a unanimous resolution.
Grasso now returns for her first non-title struggle since a 2022 win over Viviane Araujo, going through Brazil’s Silva, contemporary off a Combat of the Night time victory towards former strawweight champ and flyweight title challenger Jessica Andrade. Silva sits on a 12-fight win streak courting again to her time on the Brazilian regional scene, and has gained six of these bouts underneath the UFC banner.
Alexa Grasso is ranked #1 within the girls’s flyweight division, whereas Natalia Silva sits at #5 presently.
UFC 315 takes place on the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec on Saturday, Could 10, 2025. The next match-ups have been reported for the occasion:
Brad Katona vs. Bekzat Almakhan
Hailey Cowan vs. Nora Cornolle
Alexa Grasso vs. Natália Silva
Marc-André Barriault vs. Bruno Silva
