Dan Ige to Face Damon Jackson at UFC Fight Night on Jan. 14

Dan Ige will lock horns with Damon Jackson at the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first event of 2023.

MMAFighting.com confirmed the featherweight booking after Jackson announced the fight via social media. UFC Fight Night takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Jan. 14 and is headlined by a middleweight clash pitting Kelvin Gastelum against Nassourdine Imavov.

A competitor on the initial season of Dana White’s Contender Series, Ige was victorious in six of his first seven Octagon appearances. The 31-year-old known as “50K” has fallen on hard times of late, however, with losses in four of his last five outings — a stretch that includes three straight decision defeats to Chan Sung Jung, Josh Emmett and Movsar Evloev.

Jackson, meanwhile, has been trending upward during his second UFC stint. The former Legacy Fighting Alliance champion has won four straight bouts in the Las Vegas-based promotion and is coming off a first-round stoppage of Pat Sabatini at UFC Fight Night 210 on Sept. 17.