Niagara Falls and Burlington fighters added to UFC Fight Night card in Des Moines

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 17, 2025 8:26 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Canadians Gillian (The Savage) Roberson and Serhiy Sidey person been added to a May 3 UFC Fight Night paper successful Des Moines, Iowa.

Robertson, ranked 12th among UFC strawweight contenders, volition look No. 9 Marina Rodriguez of Brazil portion Sidey tackles American bantamweight Cameron (The Baby-Faced Killer) Smotherman.

The main lawsuit astatine Wells Fargo Arena pits American Cory (Sandman) Sandhagen, ranked 4th among bantamweight contenders, against No. 5 Deiveson Figueiredo of Brazil, a erstwhile flyweight champion present campaigning astatine 135 pounds.

Robertson (15-8-0) won each 3 of her fights successful 2024, defeating Brazilians Polyana Viana and Luana Pinheiro and American Michelle (The Karate Hottie) Waterson-Gomez.

The 29-year-old Robertson, who dropped to strawweight from flyweight (125 pounds) successful aboriginal 2023, improved to 4-1-0 astatine 115 pounds. She is 12-6-0 successful her UFC career.

Robertson was 7 erstwhile her household near Niagara Falls, Ont., for Florida truthful her parent could instrumentality a nursing job. Robertson is present based retired of Miami.

Rodriguez (17-5-2) has mislaid 2 consecutive and 4 of her past five. Before that she went 6-1-2 successful the UFC.

Sidey (11-2-0) is 1-1-0 successful the UFC aft earning his declaration successful September 2023 with a KO triumph implicit American Ramon (The Savage) Taveras connected "Dana White's Contender Series." Taveras won the rematch via divided determination astatine UFC 297 successful Toronto successful January 2024.

The 28-year-old from Burlington, Ont., bounced backmost successful November with a split-decision triumph implicit American Garrett Armfield.

Smotherman (12-4-0) won his UFC debut via determination implicit England's Jake (White Kong) Hadley successful October.