Joe Lauzon vs. Stevie Ray lightweight scrap added to UFC Fight Night 108 in Nashville

The card for the UFC’s return to “Music City” next month continues to build with the addition of a 13th fight.

Veteran Joe Lauzon (27-12 MMA, 14-9 UFC) is set to take on Scotland’s Stevie Ray (20-6 MMA, 4-1 UFC) in a lightweight bout at UFC Fight Night 108 in Nashville. UFC officials announced the new booking today.

UFC Fight Night 108, which includes a featherweight headliner between Artem Lobov and Cub Swanson, takes place April 22 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. The card airs on FS1 following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass, though the bout order hasn’t been finalized.

Lauzon has alternated win and losses for his past seven fights, though the man who is tied for the most post-fight bonus awards in UFC history has three extra paychecks over that seven-fight stretch.

At UFC Fight Night 50 in September 2014, he picked up a “Fight of the Night” TKO win over Michael Chiesa thanks to a doctor’s stoppage for a Chiesa cut. But at UFC 183, he was stopped with a second-round TKO by Al Iaquinta. He rebounded six months later with a TKO of Takanori Gomi at UFC on FOX 16, then dropped a decision to Evan Dunham. At UFC 200 this past July, he became the first fighter to finish Diego Sanchez (other than a doctor’s stoppage) with an 86-second bonus-winning TKO.

Lauzon fought Jim Miller at UFC on FOX 21 this past August and dropped a split decision in a fight that nearly everyone scored in his favor. According to the media scores tracked by MMADecisions.com, only two observers scored the fight for Miller, while 25 scored it for Lauzon, including a handful who saw it as a 30-27 win for him. But Lauzon got his comeuppance in January when he took a split call from Marcin Held at UFC Fight Night 103. In that fight, 17 of 18 media scores at MMADecisions.com had the fight for Held; one had it a draw. Lauzon said after the fight he believed Held won the fight.

Stevie Ray

Ray, a former Cage Warriors lightweight champion, got back on track in November when he took a split decision from Ross Pearson at UFC Fight Night 99 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. That got him back in the win column after the first loss of his UFC tenure, a unanimous decision setback to Alan Patrick in Brazil this past September.

Prior to that, he had a five-fight winning streak, including his first three in the UFC: a TKO win over Marcin Bandel, a bonus-winning TKO of Leonardo Mafra, and a unanimous decision over Mickael Lebout. In his 27th career pro fight, the Scot will be fighting in the United States for the first time.

With the addition, the latest UFC Fight Night 108 lineup includes:

• Cub Swanson vs. Artem Lobov
• Al Iaquinta vs. Diego Sanchez
• Marcos Rogerio de Lima vs. Ovince Saint Preux
• Sam Alvey vs. Thales Leites
• Brandon Moreno vs. Dustin Ortiz
• Jessica Penne vs. Danielle Taylor
• Hector Sandoval vs. Matt Schnell
• Scott Holtzman vs. Michael McBride
• Cindy Dandois vs. Alexis Davis
• John Dodson vs. Eddie Wineland
• Jake Ellenberger vs. Mike Perry
• Bryan Barberena vs. Joe Proctor
• Joe Lauzon vs. Stevie Ray

For more on UFC Fight Night 108, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.