Diego Ferreira to Face Michael Johnson at UFC Event on May 20

Diego
Ferreira will lock horns with Michael
Johnson in a lightweight scrap at an Ultimate Fighting
Championship event on May 20.

MMA Mania was first to report the booking. The UFC Fight Night
event does not yet have a location or headliner.

Ferreira, 38, hasn’t competed since December 2021, when he suffered
his third consecutive promotional defeat at the hands of Mateusz
Gamrot at UFC Fight Night 199. The ex-Legacy Fighting
Championship title holder enjoyed his greatest success in the
Octagon when he authored a six-bout winning streak from 2016 to
2020 that include triumphs over the likes of Anthony
Pettis and Olivier
Aubin-Mercier.

Johnson, meanwhile, won two of his three UFC appearances in 2022.
Most recently, “The Menace” outpointed Marc
Diakiese at UFC on ESPN 42 this past December. Johnson has
struggled in recent years overall, going just 2-7 in the promotion
before his mini-resurgence last year.