Hopefully the third time's the charm for Renan Barao and T.J. Dillashaw.
Dillashaw vs. Barao 2 will headline UFC on FOX 16 on July 25 in Chicago, per APG on FS1.
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) April 14, 2015
This is the third time a rematch between the two has been booked. They were originally set to tangle at UFC 177 last August, but Barao was yanked from the bout after a botched weight cut and he was replaced by former Bellator champion Joe Soto.
A second attempt to schedule the bout at UFC 186 on April 25 was nixed by injury when Dillashaw suffered a fractured rib during training.
Their initial encounter in May 2014 inspired one of the most impressive title seizures in UFC history, as Dillashaw clipped the seemingly bulletproof Barao with a nasty head kick early and followed it up with more than four rounds of punishment before finishing it via vicious TKO midway through the final stanza.