UFC 275 already has two title fights at the top of the card. But the stacked Singapore pay-per-view just added what many may consider the unofficial “people’s main event” with Zhang Weili and Joanna Jedrzejczyk set to run back their epic battle. UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell confirmed to ESPN’s Marc Raimondi on Friday that both women have verbally agreed to fight on June 11 at Singapore Indoor Stadium, and that bout agreements will be sent out soon. The event will be headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between champion Glover Teixeira and challenger Jiri Prochazka. Flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko will defend her title against Taila Santos in the co-main event, while former middleweight champ Robert Whittaker will also face former title challenger Marvin Vettori. UFC 275 will mark the promotion’s first event in Asia since December 2019 in Busan, South Korea. Chinese star Zhang (21-3) made a first successful defence of the strawweight belt in a five-round thriller against fellow former champ Jedrzejczyk (16-4) in March 2020 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. She took a split decision over the Pole in the 2020 Fight of the Year, which is widely regarded as the greatest women’s MMA bout of all time. Zhang has since surrendered the title – and failed to retake it – in two losses to Rose Namajunas, but a win for either woman could lock up another title tilt. The 34-year-old Jedrzejczyk had teased the news in a social media post on Friday from the American Top Team gym in Florida, where she has already begun her training camp having travelled from her native Poland. “I have important news for you,” she wrote. “The fight has been scheduled, the opponent has been chosen.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Joanna Jedrzejczyk (@joannajedrzejczyk) Zhang, who is based in Beijing but conducted her last camp at Fight Ready in Arizona under the tutelage of former UFC double champ Henry Cejudo, has yet to comment on the fight on her own social media profiles. The 32-year-old Zhang pushed American Namajunas all the way to a split decision at Madison Square Garden in November after a crushing 78-second loss by head-kick KO in their first fight in Jacksonville, Florida. She returned to China and spent a month in isolation, before visiting her parents in her native Handan for two weeks, and said in a recent interview with Chinese media outlet People she feels “comfortable” for the first time in her career. Zhang has not fought in Asia since winning the title from Jessica Andrade with a 42-second TKO in Shenzhen, when she became the first Chinese champion in UFC history. The UFC had attempted to book Zhang’s second title defence for Singapore in April 2021, but the promotion ultimately put the fight on at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, where it welcomed a full audience for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Singapore has recently relaxed its Covid-19 restrictions, with Asian martial arts promotion ONE Championship putting on a half-capacity event at Singapore Indoor Stadium last month. The Singapore Rugby Sevens event also returned to the neighbouring National Stadium on Saturday, for the first time in two years. The AllStar’s John Hyon Ko reported this week that the UFC will also host eight-man tournaments across four weight divisions – flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight and lightweight – starting in Singapore during UFC 275 fight week. Contracts have gone out to Asian fighters and matchmaking is under way, the AllStar reported, with each tournament to be held across three months. China is still proving impossible for the UFC to host events in, with the government’s strict “zero Covid” approach slowing the organisation’s progress on the ground in the market, where it gained many new fans on the back of Zhang’s title win.