Police corporal and unbeaten strawweight Juliet “Golden Bones” Ukah will share the cage with fellow Nigerian Jane “The Slayer” Osigwe in a women’s 115-pound showcase when the PFL Africa returns to the SunBet Arena in Pretoria tomorrow for the Season 2 opener.

Their bout sits on a card headlined by bantamweight champion Nkosi “King” Ndebele against Italy’s Michele Clemente, with heavyweight contender Justin Clarke facing Senegal’s Abdoulaye Kane in the co-main event.

Ukah enters the week at 8-0 as a professional and 2-0 under the PFL Africa banner, with wins over South Africa’s Ceileigh Niedermayr and Egypt’s Maryam Gaber already on her record.

She outpointed Niedermayr over three rounds in Cape Town in July 2025, then closed the year by stopping Gaber via first-round TKO at the Africa finals in Cotonou, Benin Republic.

Now 26, she is one of the most visible figures in the women’s game on the continent and was the first African-born female fighter to sign with the PFL.

The path that brought her here was improvised rather than planned. In 2022, Ukah agreed at short notice to replace another athlete on a card in Cameroon after being approached by Henry George, who would go on to lead the Nigeria Mixed Martial Arts Federation. She admits she barely knew the rules at the time and briefly considered walking away from the opportunity, but she won that debut and has not lost since, adding victories in EFC, Imbgim FC and other African shows before PFL came calling.

Outside the cage, she has been a corporal in the Nigeria Police Force since 2018, a career inspired by Chioma Ajunwa, the police officer who delivered Nigeria’s first Olympic gold medal in the long jump at Atlanta 1996. The police also have an MMA programme. “It’s so special, because yesterday we celebrated Police Day, so it’s a very special day for me.

It’s like combining the force and the sport, so it’s a very special thing for me.

Speaking ahead of Pretoria, Ukah said the timing and platform add extra motivation. “I want to say it’s going to be a great, massive explosion, because it’s going to be something good that women in MMA in Africa are looking up to. It’s something we’re going to grow, and not just in Africa – we’re going to take over the continent and the world very soon,” she said.

Osigwe, 20, arrives at 5-3 with an interim title from African Knockout (AKO), the promotion launched by former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman. She claimed the AKO women’s bantamweight interim belt by outpointing Morocco’s Sanaa Mandar last August in Abuja and brings a record built on pressure, forward movement and a high rate of TKO and KO finishes. Pretoria marks her PFL debut and a shift down to strawweight, where she will look to test Ukah’s composure with volume and pace.