Daniel Cormier and Derrick Lewis at the head of the UFC 230

The UFC has booked a heavyweight title fight between champion Daniel Cormier and Derrick Lewis to cap his UFC 230 pay-per-view event on Nov. 3 in New York.

UFC President Dana White announced the news to ESPN on Tuesday and Cormier confirmed it to ESPN. The heavyweight bout will take place on the annual UFC card at Madison Square Garden.

With a new main tournament in place, Valentina Shevchenko will resume her initial fight against Joanna Jedrzejczyk for the vacant women's flyweight title at UFC 231 on December 8 in Toronto, according to White.

The UFC canceled this bout last week to allow Shevchenko to win the UFC 230 title against Sijara Eubanks. But with the title fight Cormier-Lewis in the lead, the promotion decided to bring Shevchenko back to the map on December 8th.

Cormier (21-1) is the light heavyweight and heavyweight champion of the UFC. According to the ESPN rankings, he is also the best fighter from the pound to the pound in the world.

His next fight for the heavyweight title was to face Brock Lesnar in 2019, but the UFC wanted to reinforce the next month's pay-per-view event, and Cormier had expressed his willingness to fight once again. more this year. He has just won a historic playoff victory over Stipe Miocic at UFC 226 in July.

Cormier, based in San Jose, Calif., Has announced that he will retire next spring, around the age of 40.

Lewis (21-5), of Houston, has just won a superb playoff victory behind Alexander Volkov at UFC 229 last weekend in Las Vegas. Lewis was dragging into the fight until the last 20 seconds, when he dropped Volkov with a right hand. He has won nine of his last ten fights.

A light fight between Nate Diaz and Dustin Poirier is currently scheduled to serve as the main event at UFC 230.