Former light heavyweight title challenger Dominick
Reyes will return to action for the first time in more than a
year when he meets Ryan Spann at
UFC
281.
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MMAjunkie.com was first to report the booking. UFC 281 takes
place on Nov. 12 at Madison Square Garden in New York and features
a middleweight title fight pitting Israel
Adesanya against Alex
Pereira.
Reyes began his professional career with 12 consecutive triumphs —
a run that included six wins in the UFC. He lost a narrow decision
to Jon
Jones in a light heavyweight title bout at UFC 247 and has
since suffered KO/TKO losses to former champ Jan
Blachowicz and current 205-pound king Jiri
Prochazka. His most recent appearance, a second-round KO loss
to Prochazka at UFC on ESPN 23, occurred on May 1, 2021.
A former competitor on Dana White’s Contender Series, Spann has
been victorious in six of his eight Octagon appearances. Most
recently, “Superman” submitted Ion
Cutelaba in the opening stanza of their encounter at UFC on
ESPN 36.