No. 1-ranked welterweight Rory MacDonald leads a hometown-heavy card into the UFC's debut in Ottawa for Fight Night 89, the organization announced Tuesday.

The B.C. native squares off against No. 2 welterweight Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson in the main event at TD Place.

MacDonald has won eight of his last 10 outings and holds victories over Tarec Saffiedine, Tyron Woodley, Demian Maia, Jake Ellenberger and B.J. Penn. At UFC 189 in July, he came up short in 2015’s Fight of the Year against welterweight champion Robbie Lawler.

Thompson is on a six-fight win streak, earning knockout wins over Jake Ellenberger, Robert Whittaker and Chris Clements. "Wonderboy" became the first fighter to finish Johny Hendricks by stopping the former welterweight champion with strikes in the first round.

Also, Donald Cerrone takes on Canadian Patrick Côté in welterweight action.

Ranked No. 9 at 155 pounds, Cerrone holds career wins over Benson Henderson, Eddie Alvarez, Edson Barboza and Jim Miller, “Cowboy” has 21 stoppage victories to his credit and also boasts 11 UFC Fight Night bonuses. He made a successful welterweight debut in February by submitting Alex Oliveira in the first round.

Currently riding a three-fight win streak, Côté, from Montreal, is 5-1 since dropping to welterweight three years ago. He holds victories over Ben Saunders, Josh Burkman, Joe Riggs and Kyle Noke in the 170-pound division. In 2008, he challenged Anderson Silva for the UFC middleweight championship following a five-fight win streak.

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UFC FIGHT NIGHT: MACDONALD vs. THOMPSON will also feature the following bouts:

- Steve Bosse meets Sean O’Connell

- Ultimate Fighter Nationsmiddleweight winner Elias Theodorou takes on Sam Alvey

- Jason Saggo takes on Leandro Silva

- Misha Cirkunov faces newcomer Ion Cutelaba 

- Olivier Aubin-Mercier faces Thibault Gouti

- Tamdan McCrory takes on Krzysztof Jotko 

- Alex Garcia battles Colby Covington