After 2025 ended on a sour note for Canada's Gillian Robertson, she's ready for retribution in 2026.
The UFC announced on Friday that the previously cancelled bout between the Niagara Falls, Ont., native and Amanda Lemos has been rebooked for March 14.
Robertson and Lemos will square off for their ranked women's strawweight fight as intended, this time as part of a Fight Night card headlined by Josh Emmett and Kevin Vallejos at the UFC's Meta APEX facility.
The Canadian vs. Brazilian matchup was originally intended to be part of the promotion's final event of 2025, but was cancelled mere hours before the two were supposed to enter the octagon because of a "medical issue" with Lemos.
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Lemos’s specific medical issue was not disclosed. Both women successfully made weight on Friday, with Lemos weighing 115.5 pounds and Robertson at the non-title strawweight limit of 116 pounds.
The matchup was slated to be the featured fight on the preliminary card.
Robertson, 30, surges into the bout on the heels of five consecutive wins that have propelled her to the No. 10-ranked fighter in the women's strawweight division. Her most recent victory was a second-round TKO win over Marina Rodriguez last May.
She now gets a second crack at taking on a threat near the top of the table in Lemos, who sits at No. 5, with hopes of a victory pushing her that much closer to title contention.
As for Lemos, injury aside, the 38-year-old will be looking to bounce back from a unanimous decision loss to Tatiana Suarez in September that marked her third defeat through five fights. A run that began with her falling short against then-strawweight champion Zhang Weili in the Chinese fighter's first title defence back in 2023.
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