Cody Garbrandt to Face Mario Bautista at UFC Event on Aug. 19

Cody
Garbrandt will look to put together his first winning streak
since 2016 when he meets Mario
Bautista at a UFC event on Aug. 19.

MMAFighting.com was first to report the bantamweight booking.
The UFC Fight Night card doesn’t yet have a location or
headliner.

A former bantamweight champion, “No Love” is just 2-5 in UFC
competition since 2017 — and all but one of those defeats have come
via knockout or technical knockout. After an unsuccesful one-bout
stint at flyweight, Garbrandt returned to 135 pounds at UFC 285,
where he took a three-round verdict over Trevin
Jones on March 4.

Bautista, meanwhile, has won six of seven Octagon appearances since
falling to Cory
Sandhagen in his promotional debut. The 29-year-old MMA Lab
representative was successful in his first outing of 2023, when he
submitted Guido
Cannetti in the opening stanza at UFC Fight Night 221.