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UFC working on vacant bantamweight title fight between Petr Yan and Jose Aldo

With Henry Cejudo apparently retiring from MMA, the UFC has officially vacated his bantamweight title. And now it looks like the promotion is working on a fight between Petr Yan and Jose Aldo to claim the belt.

After Cejudo defeated Dominick Cruz at UFC 249 earlier this month, the UFC announced that Yan would fight for the belt, but against exactly who remained a mystery. A top contenders bout between Aljamain Sterling and Cory Sandhagen seemed like it could crown a contender to face the Russian, but it looks like the UFC has more immediate ideas than waiting for the winner of that fight.