Brown initially announced the booking on his Twitch channel. UFC Fight Night 194 takes place on Oct. 9 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a strawweight tilt pitting Marina Rodriguez against Mackenzie Dern.
Brown, 31, has been victorious in three of his last four Octagon appearances. Most recently, the Budokan Martial Arts Academy Representative submitted Alex Oliveira in the opening stanza at UFC 261 on April 24.
After dropping decisions to Alan Jouban and Abubakar Nurmagomedov in his first two promotional outings, Gooden scored his first Octagon triumph with a 68-second KO of Niklas Stolze at UFC on ESPN 28.