Amanda Nunes puts featherweight title up against Felicia Spencer at UFC 250

Amanda Nunes will attempt to defend her women’s featherweight title for the first time at UFC 250.

Nunes, who owns belts at 145 pounds and women’s bantamweight, will meet Felicia Spencer on her home soil in the co-main event of the May fight card.

MMA Junkie verified the title booking with a UFC official following an initial report from ESPN.com. The UFC’s broadcast partner was informed of the fight by UFC president Dana White.

UFC 250 takes place May 9 at Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+/UFC Fight Pass.

Nunes (19-4 MMA, 12-1 UFC) has been the UFC’s dual-champ since December 2018, when she knocked out Cris Cyborg to add featherweight gold alongside her bantamweight belt. She’s defended her 135-pound title twice since against Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie, but has been keen to move back up and become the first in UFC history to register title defenses across two weight classes while holding multiple belts.

Looking to stop that historical moment from happening is Spencer (8-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC), who is less than a week removed from a first-round TKO of Zarah Fairn at UFC on ESPN+ 27. There were two featherweight fights on that card, and Megan Anderson also getting a win. Both appeared in the running to get the title fight with Nunes. But Spencer holds a win over Anderson, which may have been the difference to the UFC brass.

Spencer will attempt to join Georges St-Pierre and Carlos Newton as the only Canadian fighters to win UFC titles, and would become the first female in the group.

With the addition, the UFC 250 lineup now includes:

• Champ Henry Cejudo vs. Jose Aldo – for bantamweight title
• Champ Amanda Nunes vs. Felicia Spencer – for women’s featherweight title
• Marion Reneau vs. Ketlen Vieira
• Blagoy Ivanov vs. Augusto Sakai
• Aleksei Oleinik vs. Fabricio Werdum
• Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Mauricio Rua
• Bethe Correia vs. Pannie Kianzad