Interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall says he will fight at UFC Manchester this summer.
UFC president Dana White said last week that a pay-per-view event was being planned and that he wanted to put Aspinall and welterweight champion Leon Edwards on the card.
Speaking on her TikTok, Aspinall said: “I had a meeting with the UFC.
“It’s already been confirmed that I’ll be fighting at UFC Manchester, so I’m back home preparing for that now.”
Aspinall, 31, won the interim title last November and appears ready to defend the title with champion Jon Jones sidelined with injury.
The Manchester native traveled to Las Vegas to be in the cage UFC 300, but says he is now in the “early stages of training camp” in England.
The UFC is targeting a late July date.
Aspinall, who has 14 wins and just three losses, did not reveal who he would fight but said he was “just waiting for my opponent to accept”.
A potential opponent could be American Curtis Blaydes, who beat Aspinall in London in 2022 thanks to a strange knee injury into English.
