Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar will be returning to the UFC octagon next month and he will meet Mark Hunt in the co-main event of UFC 200.
The fight booking was announced by Lesnar this morning on ESPN.
UFC 200 will come from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 9 and the event will be headlined by a title unification bout as light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier meets interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones in a rematch of their initial meeting at UFC 182.
Lesnar (5-3) will be stepping into the octagon for the first time since the end of 2011, which was a lost against Alistair Overeem at UFC 141. He enters this fight with back to back defeats and he has a record of 4-3 in the UFC. Hunt (12-10-1) has won back to back fights and is coming off a knockout victory against Frank Mir. He is 3-2-1 in his last six fights and all of those victories have come by TKO/KO.
The current UFC 200: Cormier vs. Jones II fight card is below.
Daniel Cormier (17-1) vs. Jon Jones (22-1)
Brock Lesnar (5-3) vs. Mark Hunt (12-10-1)
Miesha Tate (18-5) vs. Amanda Nunes (12-4)
Jose Aldo (25-2) vs. Frankie Edgar (20-4-1)
Cain Velasquez (13-2) vs. Travis Browne (18-3-1)
Johny Hendricks (17-4) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (11-2)
T.J. Dillashaw (12-3) vs. Raphael Assuncao (23-4)
Derek Brunson (15-3) vs. Gegard Mousasi (38-6-2)
Joe Lauzon (25-11) vs. Diego Sanchez (26-8)
Takanori Gomi (35-11, 1NC) vs. Jim Miller (25-8, 1NC)
Sage Northcutt (7-1) vs. Enrique Marin (8-3)
Cat Zingano (9-1) vs. Julianna Pena (7-2)