Life isn't going to get any easier for former Patricio Freire.

The ex-Bellator MMAchampion will square off against former two-division Oktagon MMA king Losene Keita at UFC Paris on Sept. 6. Maitres Fumiers was first to report the 145-pound booking. UFC Paris -- also known as UFC Fight Night 258 -- takes place at the Accor Arena in Paris and is headlined by a middleweight duel between Nassourdine Imavov and Caio Borralho.

A title holder at 155 and 145 pounds in Bellator, Freire's Octagon tenure got off to a rocky start when he dropped a lackluster unanimous decision to Yair Rodriguez at UFC 314 this past April. The 38-year-old "Pitbull" rebounded in his last outing, a he outpointed Dan Ige at UFC 318. The Brazilian's 37-8 career mark includes triumphs over the likes of A.J. McKee, Michael Chandler, Daniel Straus, Pat Curran and Kleber Koike Erbst, among others.

It didn't take long for Keita to find an opponent after his UFC signing became public on Friday. The 27-year-old Belgium-based fighter has tasted defeat just once in 17 pro outings, and he will take a five-bout winning streak into the showdown with Freire. Most recently, "Black Panther" scored a second-round stoppage of Ronald Paradeiser in a lightweight title bout at Oktagon 65 on Dec. 29.