Volkan Oezdemir is scheduled to appear in Florida court a little more than a week before he challenges Daniel Cormier for the light heavyweight title at UFC 220.
According to court records, Oezdemir has an arraignment in Broward County Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court on Jan. 9 at 9 a.m. for a charge of felony battery causing great bodily harm, a second-degree felony. Oezdemir allegedly knocked a man unconscious outside a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., bar on Aug. 12. The charge was originally aggravated battery causing great bodily harm or disability, which was a second-degree felony.