UFC CEO Dana White announced via Instagram Live on Tuesday the main and co-main events for UFC 317, set to headline the promotion’s annual International Fight Week on June28.
In the main event, former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira will take on former featherweight titleholder Ilia Topuria for the vacant lightweight title. Lightweight champion Islam Makhachev will be vacating his title to move up to the UFC welterweight division to face newly crowned champion Jack Della Maddalena at a later time and date.
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Oliveira is coming off a Fight of the Night-earning performance against Michael Chandler at UFC 309 last November.