Former interim lightweight champion, Justin Gaethje has opened as a betting favorite to snap the impressive winning run of fellow divisional contender, Dan Hooker at UFC 313 in March — with the duo officially slated to go to war over the course of five rounds in the event’s co-headliner.
Gaethje, who remains the number three rank in the official lightweight pile, will make his return to the Octagon for the first time in eleven months when he draws Kiwi striker, Hooker at UFC 313.
Sidelined since April of last year, former interim champion, Gaethje lost the symbolic BMF championship in dramatic fashion against ex-featherweight pacesetter, Max Holloway at UFC 300, in the form of a buzzer-beating fifth round knockout defeat.