UFC 315 adds Modestas Bukauskas vs. Ion Cutelaba to Montreal lineup ...Middle East

Some light heavyweight firepower will be on display when the UFC returns to Canada this spring.

The promotion Monday announced a new 205-pound matchup for UFC 315 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+), which is set for Bell Centre in Montreal on May 10. Modestas Bukauskas (17-6 MMA, 5-4 UFC) vs. Ion Cutelaba (19-10-1 MMA, 8-9-1 UFC) has been added to the lineup, which is headlined by a pair of title fights. The bout’s placement on the card was not revealed.

Cutelaba is coming off a first-round upset of Ibo ASlan at UFC Fight Night 252. He submitted Aslan with an arm-triangle choke for his second straight win bo build on a split call over Ivan Erslan this past September.

Cutelaba, from Moldova but based in Las Vegas, has just one post-fight bonus from the UFC in nearly 20 walks to the octagon. But he currently has wins in three of his past four fights – a marked step up from when just a year ago, he lost to Philipe Lins for his fourth setback in five fights.

Bukauskas, a two-time Cage Warriors champion, is in his second stint with the UFC. He returned to the UFC in 2023 and has four wins in five fights this latest time around. And at UFC Fight Night 252, a few hours before Cutelaba’s win, Bukauskas opened the show with a first-round TKO of Raffael Cerqueira.

Like Cutelaba, post-fight bonuses have been hard to come by. He has one in his nine UFC fight, and it came in his debut with the promotion in 2020.

With the addition, the UFC 315 lineup now includes:

Champ Belal Muhammad vs. Jack Della Maddalena – for welterweight title Champ Valentina Shevchenko vs. Manon Fiorot – for women’s flyweight title Gilbert Burns vs. Michael Morales Jose Aldo vs. Aiemann Zahabi Alexa Grasso vs. Natalia Silva Jessica Andrade vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Bruno Silva Bekzat Almakhan vs. Brad Katona Joel Alvarez vs. Benoit Saint Denis Mike Malott vs. Charlie Radtke Ivan Erslan vs. Navajo Stirling Modestas Bukauskas vs. Ion Cutelaba

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 315.

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