The matchups were announced during the UFC on ESPN 30 broadcast on Saturday. UFC 268 takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 6 and is headlined by a welterweight championship rematch between Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington. In the co-main event, Rose Namajunas will face Weili Zhang in a strawweight title rematch.
The UFC’s inaugural female featherweight queen, de Randamie has won six of her last seven promotional outings. Most recently, “The Iron Lady” submitted Julianna Pena in the third round at UFC on ESPN 16.
Aldana, meanwhile, rebounded from a lopsided loss to Holly Holm last October to defeat Yana Kunitskaya by first-round technical knockout at UFC 264 on July 10. Aldana has won three of her last four fights, including a first-round KO of Ketlen Vieira at UFC 245.
Green dropped his second consecutive fight at UFC 265, where he fell to Rafael Fiziev via unanimous decision. Prior to that, “King” also lost a three-round verdict to Thiago Moises at UFC Fight Night 181.
Iaquinta will return to the Octagon for the first time since October 2019, when he fell to Dan Hooker via unanimous decision at UFC 243. The Serra-Longo Fight Team representative has lost three of four Octagon appearances since 2018.