Mexican undefeated feminine flyweight “Kill Invoice” Regina Tarin has formally signed with the UFC and is scheduled to make her promotional debut at UFC Mexico on Saturday, February 28, 2026 at Enviornment CDMX in Mexico Metropolis. The 21-year-old is an impromptu substitute for Sofia Montenegro, who withdrew from her scheduled girls’s flyweight bout in opposition to Lithuanian opponent Ernesta “Heavy Hand” Kalekite for undisclosed causes.
“Kill Invoice” Regina Tarin makes her UFC debut in opposition to Ernesta Karekite in Mexico Metropolis
The bout can be contested at a catchweight of 130 kilos, and Eurosport’s Marcel Dorf first reported on the change. Taryn holds an ideal skilled report of 7-0, with all of her wins coming by end aside from a unanimous resolution victory over Andrea Garcia in 2024. 4 of her seven wins have come by knockout, with the vast majority of her finishes coming inside one spherical. This is likely one of the the explanation why she is attracting consideration as an up-and-coming expertise in Mexico.
Taryn’s final battle was in November 2025 at Robust N Excessive 1125 in Costa Rica, the place she knocked out Yulivia Jimenez simply over two minutes into their foremost occasion match. In early 2024, she defeated Luisa Cifuentes by fourth-round TKO to win the vacant Budo Sento Championship girls’s bantamweight title, including a regional belt to her ever-growing resume. She additionally has a stoppage victory over former season 30 contestant Kaitlyn Neal. final fighteron the time of Fight International look in 2024.
Her probability to compete in opposition to Kalekite comes at a busy time in her profession. Taryn is scheduled to compete in a Muay Thai match at Budo Sentou Championship 33 this week earlier than being known as as much as the UFC, and beforehand spent a number of days on the WWE Efficiency Heart for a tryout in January 2026. In keeping with public experiences, she was the one Mexican girl invited to that individual WWE coaching session, highlighting the curiosity in her past the MMA world.
Kalekaite, a 27-year-old from Lithuania, has a report of 6-1-1 and is 1-1 to this point contained in the Octagon. She earned a UFC contract with a break up resolution win over Carly Giudice on Dana White’s Contender Collection in 2023, and defeated Nicole Cagliari through break up resolution in January 2025. Her UFC debut was a unanimous resolution loss to former title hopeful Dione Barbosa at UFC 301.
Regina Tarin sees the battle as a significant milestone, writing on Instagram, “Son of Los Planes de Dios is ideal, gente buena le pasán cosas buenas siempre,” marking Saturday because the second of her UFC debut in Mexico. As one in every of a number of Mexican fighters featured on the cardboard, she’s going to look to start out her UFC journey with a robust assertion within the first 130-pound contest of her profession.
