If you’re a fan of middleweight brawls, mark this one down on your calendar.

A matchup between Marc-Andre Barriault and Michal Oleksiejczuk has been added to the Feb. 7 UFC Fight Night event taking place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, the organization announced Thursday.

The pair of 185-pounders are both known as aggressive strikers who always look for the knockout.

Canada’s Barriault, 35, went 1-1 in 2025 after knocking out Bruno Silva in his home province of Quebec at UFC 315 in May but is coming off a Fight of the Night performance in July that saw him lose a decision to Sharabutdin Magomedov at a Fight Night in Abu Dhabi.

Poland’s Oleksiejczuk is riding high off two consecutive first-round stoppage wins. The 30-year-old put away Sedriques Dumas with strikes at UFC 314 in April and d

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