Two light heavyweight contenders, both of them ranked inside the Top 5 by the Ultimate Fighting Championship, will face one another when former titleholder Jan Blachowicz meets Aleksandar Rakic in the UFC on ESPN 36 headliner this Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, onetime Legacy Fighting Alliance champion Ryan Spann tackles Ion Cutelaba in the three-round co-main event at 205 pounds.
UFC on ESPN “Blachowicz vs. Rakic”—which airs live on ESPN2 and streams to ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT—also features a bantamweight tilt pairing Louis Smolka with Davey Grant, a women’s flyweight affair slotting Katlyn Chookagian opposite Amanda Ribas, a lightweight encounter matching Frank Camacho with Manuel Roberto Torres and a flyweight scrap pitting Jake Hadley against Allan Nascimento.