A fight between No. 3 and No. 4 in the middleweight division has been added to an expected pay-per-view event in 2022.
John Morgan of MMA Junkie has reported that Jared Cannonier and Derek Brunson have agreed to fight at UFC 270 on Jan. 22. The location and venue of the event has not been announced at this time.
Cannonier made his middleweight debut at UFC 230, where he earned a ‘Performance of the Night’ bonus for his second-round technical knockout of David Branch. The ‘Killa Gorilla’ went on to stop Anderson Silva and Jack Hermansson at UFC 237 and UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs.