It’ll be a night of UFC firsts for the UFC in Canada this June. The promotion heads to Winnipeg, Manitoba, for the first time, and now the country will have its first UFC women’s bout on the card.

Alexis Davis (13-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will meet Rosi Sexton (13-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) in a women’s bantamweight bout at UFC 161. UFC officials on Thursday announced the fight booking.

UFC 161 takes place June 15 at Winnipeg’s MTS Centre. The main card, featuring a bantamweight title fight between interim champion Renan Barao and Eddie Wineland, airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.

With the addition of Davis vs. Sexton, which likely will be part of the preliminary card, the event likely is complete with 13 fights. Tickets for the event go on sale next week.

Davis, a Canadian from Ontario, is a former Strikeforce fighter who went 2-1 in that promotion with wins over Julie Kedzie and Amanda Nunes before dropping a majority decision to Sarah Kaufman a little more than a year ago in arguably one of the year’s best female fights.

But she rebounded to win back-to-back fights under the Invicta FC banner. She submitted Hitomi Akano to win “Submission of the Night” at Invicta FC 2 in July, then submitted Shayna Baszler with another rear-naked choke at Invicta FC 4, which picked her up the “Fight of the Night” award. That win gave her five victories in her past six fights.

Sexton, who has been fighting professionally for more than 10 years, will enter the bout with three straight wins and eight victories in her past nine fights. Her lone loss in that stretch came by knockout against Zoila Frausto Gurgel at Bellator 23. The only other setback in her career was a knockout loss to Gina Carano in 2006.

Sexton’s three straight wins all have come under the Cage Warriors banner in England and Ireland with one win per year in 2010 (Sally Krumdiack), 2011 (Roxanne Modafferi) and 2012 (Aisling Daly) for that promotion.

The latest UFC 161 card includes:

Renan Barao vs. Eddie Wineland – for interim bantamweight title Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Mauricio Rua Rashad Evans vs. Dan Henderson Patrick Barry vs. Shawn Jordan Jake Shields vs. Tyron Woodley Sam Stout vs. Isaac Vallie-Flagg Stipe Miocic vs. Soa Palelei Ryan Jimmo vs. Igor Pokrajac Sean Pierson vs. Anthony Waldburger Mitch Clarke vs. John Maguire Roland Delorme vs. Edwin Figueroa Yves Jabouin vs. Dustin Pague Alexis Davis vs. Rosi Sexton

For the latest on UFC 161, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.

(Pictured: Alexis Davis)