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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
A trio of fights has been added to next month's Invicta FC 12 event in Kansas City, including two veterans from The Ultimate Fighter 18.
According to a report from MMAJunkie.com, Roxanne Modafferi will take on Vanessa Porto, Amanda Bell and Faith Van Duin will square off, and Peggy Morgan will face Latoya Walker.
Modafferi and Porto actually meet for a second time, seven years after Modafferi scored the only TKO victory of her career. Modafferi got one official UFC bout after TUF 18, suffering what was her sixth straight loss at the time, but she's bounced back with consecutive wins inside the Invicta cage. Porto, meanwhile, has gone 10-3 since her loss to Modafferi, splitting her four apperances with Invicta in that time.
Bell fights for the second time in Invicta, having stopped Maria Hougaard Djursaa last November in her organizational debut. That came a few months after she knocked out one of UFC Champ Ronda Rousey's best friends in Marina Shafir. She'll now take on the 4-1 Van Duin, who hopes to bounce back from her first career loss in her Invicta debut.
Morgan was a TUF competitor alongside Modafferi, and in similar fashion was one and done in the UFC before coming to Invicta. She lost her Invicta debut as well, but defeated Andria Wawro in her last outing to halt that streak. She'll now face the undefeated Walker, who makes her Invicta FC debut with a 4-0 record.
Invicta FC 12 will air live on UFC Fight Pass on April 24, headlined by a Strawweight Title bout between Katja Kankaanpaa and Livia Renata Souza.
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