Ultimate Fighting Championships added a second welterweight fight to February’s upcoming UFC 143 event as “TUF” 13 alum Justin ‘Fast Eddy’ Edwards (7-2) and UFC sophomore Mike Stumpf (11-3) were added to the lineup.
Officials with the promotion made the fight official at UFC.com Friday morning.
UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit is scheduled for February 4, 2012 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevda and features four other welterweight bouts including an interim title fight between Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit.
Edwards (pictured) was a member of Team dos Santos during season 13 of “The Ultimate Fighter” losing his first fight to reality show winner Tony Ferguson. Edwards would debut at the TUF 13 Finale against castmate Clay Harvison, losing the match by split decision. ‘Fast Eddy’ would then go on to win his next fight, earning a decision victory against Jorge Lopez at UFN 25 and would then lose a one sided match to John Maguire at UFC 138 via unanimous decision.
Stumpf is an XFO veteran who debuted with the UFC this past September at UFN 25. At the New Orleans event, he would face T.J. Waldburger and would wind up losing via triangle choke in the first round. Stumpf had taken almost three years off from fighting from 2008 to 2011, and is close to finishing his first debree.