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It’s another Saturday of Fight Night action from the UFC’s Apex facility in Las Vegas this week with the card headlined by a light heavyweight bout between American Anthony Smith and Austria’s Aleksandar Rakic. The main card is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. ET.

The light heavyweight division is a bit in flux right now as champion and UFC pound-for-pound king Jon Jones last week relinquished his title over a salary dispute with the organization. The UFC quickly announced that Dominick Reyes and Jan Blachowicz would meet September 26 at UFC 253 to crown the new light heavyweight king.

The 32-year-old Smith (33-15) is currently ranked No. 5 in the division – he spent most of his career as a middleweight but did fight Jones for the light heavyweight title at UFC 235 in March 2019 and showed very well in a unanimous decision loss. Smith followed that up with a fourth-round submission of Alexander Gustafsson and was most recently in the Octagon in May and lost to Glover Teixeira by fifth-round TKO (punches).