Yair Rodriguez, Jeremy Stephens Rematch Set for UFC Fight Night on Oct. 18

Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens only got 15 seconds in their bout last weekend before it ended in a no contest.

Luckily for fans, they won't even have to wait a month for a rematch. UFC president Dana White said Wednesday the rematch between the two fighters will take place at UFC Fight Night on Oct. 18.

Stephens was unable to continue in Saturday's bout in Mexico City after Rodriguez accidentally poked him in the eye early in Round 1.

"My family came here, all my friends came here, and you always have to give the benefit of the doubt to your opponent," Rodriguez said on ESPN after the bout. "You don't know how he's feeling. But he's the only one who is going to have to live with that in his mind for the rest of his life if it was a lie."

The two fighters were also involved in an altercation at a Mexico City hotel, in which they exchanged gay slurs, a day after their aborted fight.

"I thought he was trying to be a gentleman," Stephens said Monday on Ariel Helwani's MMA Show on ESPN. "I get it. And he starts talking s---t to me. I was like, bro, I'm not from a karate school, I'm from the street. I'm here to fight. I'm here to kill you. Right away, my mentality is back the f--k up. So, I shoved him."

Stephens said he was taken to the emergency room following the fight with scratches and bruises on both of his eyes and could not open his left eye. There is no permanent damage to either eye, however.

Rodriguez has since insinuated that Stephens faked the eye injury to get out of the bout. It appears next month we'll see the ultimate result of what's quickly become a hotly contested rivalry.