UFC media partner ESPN on Wednesday, however, laid out the top fights for an upcoming UFC Fight Night slated for Jan. 25 in Raleigh, N.C., which MMAWeekly.com sources later confirmed.
Junior dos Santos will square off in a heavyweight headliner opposite Curtis Blaydes, while Frankie Edgar will make his bantamweight debut opposite Cory Sandhagen in the night’s co-main event.
Dos Santos had been slated to meet Alexander Volkanovski in the recent UFC on ESPN+ 21 headliner in Moscow. The bout was derailed when dos Santos had to withdraw because of a bacterial infection in his leg.