Russian star, Islam Makhachev will officially vacate his lightweight championship at the end of next month as per UFC CEO, Dana White, who has revealed the pound-for-pound number one is set for a welterweight division move in search of a fight with the newly-minted, Jack Della Maddalena.
Makhachev, who still retains the lightweight crown at the time of publication, will see his championship vacated once the opening buzzer for next month’s UFC 317 headliner sounds in ‘Sin City’.
And vying for the vacant belt is former champion and prior-foe, Charles Oliveira, who returns in a showdown with the unbeaten former featherweight kingpin, Ilia Topuria.