Marc-Andre Barriault, right, embraces Eryk Anders after their fight during a UFC 289 middleweight bout, in Vancouver, on Saturday, June 10, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
DDºÃÉ«tv middleweight Marc-Andre (Powerbar) Barriault will face Poland's Michal (Hussar) Oleksiejczuk on Feb. 7 on a UFC Fight Night card in Las Vegas.
It will be the 17th outing of an up-and-down UFC career for the hard-nosed Barriault.
The 35-year-old from Gatineau, Que., now living in South Florida, lost his first three UFC bouts before defeating Poland’s Oskar Piechota in June 2020, a verdict later turned into a no-contest after the ºÃÉ«tv failed a drug test.
The UFC later agreed with Barriault that contaminated supplements could have caused the positive test.
After serving his nine-month suspension, Barriault won three of his next four fights before losing via submission to American Anthony (Fluffy) Hernandez.
Barriault (17-10-0 with one no-contest) won his next two fights but has lost four of his last five since, dropping a decision to Russia Sharabutdin (Shara Bullet) Magomedov last time out in July. That dropped his UFC record to 6-9-0, with one no-contest.
Oleksiejczuk (21-9-0, with one no-contest) has had an equally eventful UFC career. The 30-year-old Pole has won his last two fights, stopping Americans Gerald (GM3) Meerschaert and Sedriques (The Reaper) Dumas in the first round to snap a three-fight losing streak.
Oleksiejczuk was suspended, and his win over American Khalil (The War Horse) Rountree at UFC 210 in December 2017 turned into a no-contest after he failed a drug test.
The UFC has yet to confirm the main event for the February show at the Apex in Las Vegas.
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This report by ºÃÉ«tvwas first published Dec. 12, 2025
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