Canadian 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 Canadian 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

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