Stevie Ray steps in for injured James Krause vs. Ross Pearson at UFC Fight Night 99

Yesterday, James Kruase posted an Instagram photo with a message an injury had knocked him from his UFC Fight Night 99 co-main event with Ross Pearson. Today, Pearson has a new opponent.

Stepping in for the injured Krause (23-7 MMA, 4-3 UFC) to face Pearson (19-12 MMA, 11-9 UFC) in the lightweight bout is Stevie Ray (19-6 MMA, 3-1 UFC).

The bout was announced by UFC officials.

UFC Fight Night 99 takes place Nov. 19 at SSE Arena in Belfast, and the entire card streams on UFC Fight Pass, though the bout order hasn’t been finalized. It’s the first of two cards on Nov. 19; UFC Fight Night 100 takes place later in the day in Brazil.

Pearson has lost two straight and three of his past four. The lone victory in that stretch came via hotly contested split decision to Chad Laprise. Most recently, Pearson took just 22 days between fights, temporarily moved up to welterweight and suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Jorge Masvidal at UFC 201.

After a three-fight winning streak to start his UFC career, Ray dropped a unanimous decision to Alan Patrick at UFC Fight Night 95. The loss snapped an overall winning streak of five fights.

The full UFC Fight Night 99 lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 4 p.m. ET)

• Uriah Hall vs. Gegard Mousasi
• Ross Pearson vs. Stevie Ray
• Timothy Johnson vs. Alexander Volkov
• Teruto Ishihara vs. Artem Lobov

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 12:30 p.m. ET)

• Ian McCall vs. Neil Seery
• Magnus Cedenblad vs. Jack Marshman
• Ali Bagautinov vs. Kyoji Horiguchi
• Kevin Lee vs. Magomed Mustafaev
• Amanda Cooper vs. Anna Elmose
• Mark Godbeer vs. Justin Ledet
• Zak Cummings vs. Alexander Yakovlev
• Milana Dudieva vs. Marion Reneau

For more on UFC Fight Night 99, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.