A heavyweight division attraction is going to be headlining UFC Fight Night Raleigh as #3 Curtis Blaydes faces former UFC Heavyweight Champion #4 Junior Dos Santos.
Brett Okamoto of ESPN first reported the main event encounter.
Blaydes (12-2-0-1NC) enters the contest while riding a two fight winning streak, defeating the duo of Justin Willis and Shamil Abdurakhimov. Blaydes has previously headlined one UFC event, which was a loss to Francis Ngannou at UFC Fight Night Beijing. Blaydes has picked up twelve wins as a professional MMA fighter and nine of them came by way of KO/TKO.
Dos Santos (21-6-0) has won three of his last four in the UFC, with those wins coming over Blagoy Ivanov, Tai Tuivasa and Derrick Lewis. Dos Santos is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, defeating Cain Velasquez at UFC On Fox 1 to claim the gold. Dos Santos has previously headlined twelve UFC events and he picked up victories in eight of those bouts.
UFC Fight Night Raleigh takes place on Saturday, January 25 from the PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina with Curtis Blaydes and Junior Dos Santos headlining. Fightful is providing live coverage of the event, which streams live on ESPN+.