A bantamweight bout between former UFC Flyweight Championship challenger and The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller bantamweight winner John Dodson and Pedro Munhoz is expected to take place at the event.
(meta data) TITLE: Bantamweight bout rescheduled for UFC 222 in Las Vegas | Las Vegas Review-Journal (meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2019-07-26T17:55:35-07:00 98° Partly Cloudy Las Vegas NV MMA UFC # Bantamweight bout rescheduled for UFC 222 in Las Vegas John Dodson will fight Pedro Munhoz in a bout that was canceled last week when Munhoz had difficulty making weight. By Adam Hill Las Vegas Review-Journal February 6, 2018 - 4:23 pm Updated February 6, 2018 - 4:39 pm A bantamweight bout between John Dodson and Pedro Munhoz has been rescheduled for UFC 222 at T-Mobile Arena on March 3. The fight was pulled from the UFC Fight Night 125 card in Brazil on Saturday after Munhoz missed weight by four pounds and they couldn't agree on terms to keep the matchup intact. Dodson has dropped two of his last three fights and is coming off a split-decision loss to Marlon Moraes in November. Munhoz is on a four-fight winning streak, including a first-round submission of Rob Font in October. 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Background.
A UFC Featherweight Championship bout between current champion Max Holloway and former UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar was expected to serve as the event headliner. The pairing was initially expected to take place three months earlier at UFC 218. However, Edgar pulled out of the fight citing an eye injury. In turn, Holloway pulled out of this bout on February 3, due to a leg injury and the matchup was scrapped. 
 On the same day of Holloway's withdrawal, the UFC reportedly pursued a UFC Bantamweight Championship bout between current champion T.J. Dillashaw and former champion Cody Garbrandt to headline this event, in what would be a rematch of their UFC 217 encounter, in which Dillashaw recaptured the title with a TKO win. However, Dillashaw declined the offer citing a few reasons: the recent birth of his first child, not being in a training camp, disbelief that Garbrandt deserves the title shot, as well as a targeted UFC Flyweight Championship challenge against the champion Demetrious Johnson (who was, at the time, recovering from a surgery). 
 On February 7, it was reported that a UFC Women's Featherweight Championship bout between current champion Cris Cyborg (who is also a former Strikeforce Women's Featherweight Champion and Invicta FC Featherweight Champion) and former Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Yana Kunitskaya would headline the event. Edgar remained on the card, facing Brian Ortega in the co-main event.