The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight division has itself a new contender, as former Cage Warriors two-division champion, Mason Jones, is set to make his UFC debut at UFC Fight Island 8 on Jan. 20, 2021 on “Fight Island.”
According to MMA Fighting, Jones will face Mike Davis in a 155-pound showdown on the ESPN+-streamed event, set to go down on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Jones is undefeated at 10-0 and is coming off two highly-impressive wins in 2020, knocking out Joe McColgan at Cage Warriors 113 via first round technical knockout (TKO) to win the vacant strap at Lightweight. Six months later, he won the vacant Welterweight title by knocking out Adam Proctor, also in the very first round.
All told, Jones (25) has only gone the distance three times in his professional MMA career. Davis, on the other hand, is coming off a knockout performance over Thomas Gifford last October, giving him his third win in last four outings, his first inside the Octagon.
Earlier today, it was announced that UFC Fight Island 8 had lost its main event after Khamzat Chimaev was forced to bow out of the headlining act against Leon Edwards. With plenty of time to shuffle the deck, the promotion has yet to make an official announcement regarding Edwards.
As it stans, the co-main event will see Neil Magny face off against Michael Chiesa, though either one of those two men could step in to face “Rocky” in the headlining act.