Dominick Reyes is quickly learning how fast you can go from being a title contender and headliner to hanging off the bottom of the prelims.<\/p>\n
The light heavyweight fighter came into his title fight against Jon Jones in February 2020 on a twelve fight win streak. And many believe he should have left that fight 13-0 with the 205-pound belt. Instead, he walked away on the losing side of a controversial split decision.<\/a><\/p>\n A rematch would never materialize: Jones relinquished the title shortly after when the UFC refused to renegotiate his pay. Reyes would fight Jan Blachowicz for the vacant light heavyweight title and lose via second round TKO. Several months later, Jiri Prochazka would batter Reyes so badly Dom took a year and a half off to “take care of his brain.”<\/a><\/p>\n Now Dominick Reyes is set to return on the stacked UFC 281 card against Ryan Spann. It’s an event so stacked, in fact, that Reyes didn’t make it onto the pay-per-view portion of the card. And he’s not the featured prelim. According to a lineup released on ESPN,<\/a> Reyes vs. Spann will open the televised prelim portion of UFC 281. That didn’t sit well with ‘The Devastator.’<\/p>\n \u201cWtf! Okay mfers I see I fkin see,\u201d Reyes wrote in a since-deleted Twitter post.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/DomReyes\/status\/1580619208538214400<\/p>\n Thing is it\u2019s not about proving shit, I\u2019ve proven my shit. it\u2019s about disrespect<\/p>\n — Dominick Reyes (@DomReyes) October 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n