The heavyweight title will go up for grabs on March 27 when reigning champion Stipe Miocic faces Francis Ngannou in a rematch at UFC 260.
The highly anticipated showdown has been targeted for March for several weeks but only now has the fight been made official with the athletes putting pen to paper. Multiple sources confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Saturday following an initial report from ESPN.
For Miocic, this will be his first fight since completing a trilogy against Daniel Cormier that saw the Ohio native fall in their initial meeting before beating the two-time Olympian in back-to-back contests.