Dan Ige to Face Lerone Murphy at UFC Fight Night Event on Feb. 10

What should be a banger at 145 pounds has been booked for the Apex in February.

The UFC’s broadcast partner of ESPN announced on Wednesday night that “50K” Dan Ige (17-7) would be returning to the cage in February against the unbeaten Lerone Murphy (13-0-1). The two featherweights will toe the line, possibly with top-10 implications for the victor, inside of the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. This Feb. 10 UFC Fight Night showdown has since been confirmed by both men on their respective Instagram pages.

Ige will be looking to re-enter the win column after a tough decision loss to Bryce Mitchell in September, albeit one that some observers thought Ige had done enough to win. The defeat put an end to a two-fight win streak for the Hawaiian, who punched out Damon Jackson in January and then outworked Nate Landwehr in June. Across his last 11 outings, the man known as “50K” has earned himself a pair of $50,000 bonuses with his knockouts of Gavin Tucker and the aforementioned Jackson, but he has gone the distance in the remaining nine matches.

Still undefeated as a pro, Murphy surges into this contest having won five straight. The activity level for the Brit has not been the highest, as he has amassed just five appearances since 2020, although they all went his way including knockouts of Ricardo Ramos and Makwan Amirkhani. The lone blemish on his record came in his promotional debut against Zubaira Tukhugov, where he and the Dagestan native threw down en route to a split draw.

The currently unnamed UFC Fight Night card on Feb. 10 will post up inside of the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, and Jack Hermansson vs. Joseph Pyfer will serve as its headliner at 185 pounds. Additional pairings likely held on the main card include two other middleweight scraps as Gregory Rodrigues takes on Brad Tavares while Rodolfo Vieira gets his rescheduled matchup against Armen Petrosyan.