Full Contact Fighter Database

Home

>

News

>

Article

Media

Tuesday, Apr 14, 2015

UFC Books Alex Caceres vs. Francisco Rivera

Caceres (photo via UFC.com)

By FCF Staff

The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s upcoming event in New Orleans has picked up an interesting, bantamweight match-up, as the promotion has announced that Alex Caceres will battle Francisco Rivera.

UFC Fight Night 68 will be hosted by the city’s Smoothie King Center on June 6th.

Caceres (10-7) is looking to get back on track, as he’s coming off a decision loss to Masanori Kanehara and a submission defeat to Urijah Faber. Prior to the defeats, Caceres had gone undefeated in five straight bouts.

Rivera (10-4) is looking to get back on track after he suffered a controversial, submission loss to Faber in December. Rivera was poked in the eye shortly before Faber secured a fight ending, Bulldog Choke. The heavy handed fighter is 2-2, with 1 no contest, in his last 5 scraps.

UFC FN 68 will be headlined by a light-heavyweight bout between Ryan Bader and Daniel Cormier in the headliner.

posted by FCF Staff @ 3:44 pm
Have a comment about this story? Please share with us by filling out the fields below.

Comments are closed.