A couple of other people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirmed the inside track to MMA Combating on Monday. MMA Junkie first of all reported the matchup.

Long considered a imaginable champion at 205 pounds, Reyes will make his first glance inside the UFC since 2021, when he suffered a knockout loss to Jiri Prochazka in a wild back-and-forth struggle. That battle served as Reyes’ third loss in a row after he fell to Jan Blachowicz and Jon Jones in back-to-back establish bouts.

Prior to those losses, Reyes had won the principle 12 fights of his occupation with an unblemished UFC report that built-in victories over Chris Weidman, Jared Cannonier and Volkan Oezdemir.

Now, Reyes returns to begin out his climb once more up the ladder at delicate heavyweight.

As for Spann, he’ll get a huge choice to take a step up in pageant as he seems to build on his latest win over Ion Cutelaba in Would perhaps. Common, he’s lengthy long gone 2-2 in his earlier 4 fights at the side of an additional win over Misha Cirkunov while losing bouts to Anthony Smith and Johnny Walker.

UFC 281 is headlined by means of UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya vs. Alex Pereira in a five-round number one fit.

Mike Heck contributed to this report.