The card for the UFC’s first trip to Raleigh is starting to take shape. The recently announced event will feature a heavyweight clash between Curtis Blaydes and Junior Dos Santos in the night’s headliner, and Cory Sandhagen will welcome Frankie Edgar to the bantamweight division in the co-main event. UFC Raleigh will take place on Jan. 25 at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C., which is expected to stream on ESPN+. Also officially announced is a women’s flyweight bout between Justine Kish (6-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC) and Lucie Pudilova (8-5 MMA, 2-4 UFC), a middleweight contest between Alen Amedovski (8-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) and Bevon Lewis (6-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC), a light heavyweight clash between Jamahal Hill (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Darko Stosic (13-3 MMA, 1-2 UFC), a bantamweight bout of Felipe Colares (9-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) against Montel Jackson (8-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) and lightweight fight between newcomers Herbert Burns (9-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Nate Landwehr (13-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
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Five additional bouts official for the UFC’s first trip to Raleigh – MMA Junkie