BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 09: MMA fighter Josh Thompson attends the 2016 MTV Movie Awards at Warner Bros. Studios on April 9, 2016 in Burbank, California. MTV Movie Awards airs April 10, 2016 at 8pm ET/PT. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

A new report suggests it will be out with the UFC flyweight fighters and in with a highly-demanded division.

The UFC does not plan on leaving fans empty-handed when they supposedly pull the plug on the flyweight division.

Current Bellator analyst and former UFC lightweight fighter Josh Thomson says a number of UFC executives have disclosed to him the future of the leading promotion’s flyweight division. The departure of long-reigning champion Demetrious Johnson and the sudden firings of flyweights like Jose “Shorty” Torres suggested the UFC was done with the struggling weight class. The flyweights often delivered high-octane action, but for one reason or another failed to catch on with a larger audience.

Thomson revealed Saturday on Twitter that UFC will indeed shut down the flyweight division but will introduce a 165-pound weight class in its stead. Fans, fighters and members of the media have been advocating for a 165-pound weight class ever since Nate Diaz and Dustin Poirier pitched the ahead of their doomed co-main event slot at UFC 230.

125 weight class is done after @TJDillashaw VS @HenryCejudo from all the @ufc executives I've talk to. 165lb weight class is replacing it https://t.co/TtloqSgvng — Josh Thomson (@THEREALPUNK) December 1, 2018

“125 weight class is done after T.J. Dillashaw vs. Henry Cejudo from all the UFC executives I’ve talked to,” Thomson wrote. “165lb weight class is replacing it.” His tweet was in response to writer Evan Shoman arguing “RDA is too small for welterweight and too big for a lightweight” following his one-sided loss to Kamaru Usman at The Ultimate Fighter 29 Finale on Friday, Nov. 30.

Cejudo is expected to defend his newly won UFC flyweight championship against UFC bantamweight titleholder Dillashaw at UFC 233. The former Alpha Male product seems to be Thanos in this equation, sent from the Titan planet of bantamweights to disintegrate the world of flyweights.

Perennial flyweight contender Joseph Benavidez plead for the UFC to keep the division running after finishing Alex Perez at TUF 28 Finale. It seems Benavidez will not get his wish, nor will the rest of the flyweight division. The future looks bright, however, for fighters like dos Anjos, Diaz, Poirier and McGregor who could find a new home at 165-pounds.

UFC 233 takes place on Jan. 26, 2019 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Long-time welterweight what-if Ben Askren will make his UFC debut against former champion Robbie Lawler.