Maximo Blanco finally has a new opponent for next week’s UFC Fight Night 81 fight card.

Undefeated RFA vet Luke Sanders (10-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) has stepped in to fight Blanco (12-6-1 MMA, 4-3 UFC), who originally was expected to fight fellow featherweight Dennis Bermudez (14-5 MMA, 7-3 UFC).

UFC Fight Night 81 takes place Jan. 17 at TD Garden in Boston. After early prelims on UFC Fight Pass, the remainder of the card airs on FOX Sports 1.

Sanders, a former Strikeforce and XFC fighter who’s the latest RFA champ to earn a UFC contract, moves from bantamweight to featherweight for his fight with Blanco, which is slated for the FOX Sports 1-televised prelims.

The card recently underwent some other changes: middleweights Tim Boetsch (18-9 MMA, 9-8 MMA) and Ed Herman (22-11 MMA, 9-8 UFC) have moved from the UFC Fight Pass prelims to the FOX Sports 1 prelims, and featherweights Charles Rosa (10-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) and Jimy Hettes (11-3 MMA, 3-3 UFC) have moved from FOX Sports 1 to UFC Fight Pass.

The full UFC Fight Night 81 lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (FOX Sports 1, 10 p.m. ET)

Champ T.J. Dillashaw vs. Dominick Cruz – for bantamweight title

Eddie Alvarez vs. Anthony Pettis

Travis Browne vs. Matt Mitrione

Ross Pearson vs. Francisco Trinaldo

PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET)

Patrick Cote vs. Ben Saunders

Mairbek Taisumov vs. Chris Wade

Maximo Blanco vs. Luke Sanders

Tim Boetsch vs. Ed Herman

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6 p.m. ET)

Daron Cruickshank vs. Paul Felder

Ilir Latifi vs. Sean O’Connell

Jimy Hettes vs. Charles Rosa

Rob Font vs. Joey Gomez

Francimar Barroso vs. Abdul-Kerim Edilov

For more on UFC Fight Night 81, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.