With Gadelha out, Aisling Daly vs. Randa Markos official for UFC 186 in Montreal

Randa Markos

As expected, Aisling Daly didn’t have to wait long to get a new fight after her previous fight fell through.

After Claudia Gadelha (12-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) fell out of her UFC Fight Night 64 bout with Daly (15-5 MMA, 1-0 UFC), Daly now will meet fellow “TUF 20? strawweight cast member Randa Markos (4-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) at UFC 186.

The UFC made the new fight official today after it was reported this past Saturday. It has not yet been announced where the Daly-Markos fight will fall on the card. It had been slated for the featured prelim slot at UFC Fight Night 64 in Poland, which takes place April 11.

UFC 186 takes place April 25 at Bell Centre in Montreal. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FOX Sports 1 and UFC Fight Pass.

Daly was seeded fifth of the 16 fighters on “TUF 20.” She won her first fight in the house by stopping Angela Magana with a TKO, but she fell in the quarterfinals to Jessica Penne. In her first official fight in the UFC at the TUF 20 Finale, she stopped fellow cast member Alex Chambers with a first-round armbar for back-to-back wins after a three-fight skid in Cage Warriors and Invicta.

Markos, a Canadian, was the “TUF 20? Cinderella story after upset wins in the opening round of the tournament and the quarterfinals. As the No. 14 seed, she beat No. 3-seeded Tecia Torres, one of the show’s early favorites, by unanimous decision. Then she submitted No. 6 Felice Herrig in the first round. But she fell to Rose Namajunas in the semifinals. At the TUF 20 Finale in December, her first official UFC fight, she dropped a split decision to fellow semifinalist Jessica Penne.

Gadelha, who trains with featherweight champion Jose Aldo, was looking to rebound from a split-decision loss to Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC on FOX 13 in December, the first loss of her career. It was thought that she would earn a women’s strawweight title shot against champion Carla Esparza with the win, but instead Jedrzejczyk got the shot with the victory and put together a dominant performance to take Esparza’s belt.

The latest UFC 186 card now includes:

• Champ Demetrious Johnson vs. Kyoji Horiguchi – for flyweight title
• Quinton Jackson vs. Fabio Maldonado
• Michael Bisping vs. C.B. Dollaway
• John Makdessi vs. Abel Trujillo
• Thomas Almeida vs. Yves Jabouin
• Patrick Cote vs. Joe Riggs
• Alexis Davis vs. Sarah Kaufman
• Bryan Barberena vs. Chad Laprise
• Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. David Michaud
• Chris Clements vs. Nordine Taleb
• Valerie Letourneau vs. Jessica Rakoczy
• Aisling Daly vs. Randa Markos

For more on UFC 186, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.