| UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. dos Santos | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. dos Santos | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | January 25, 2020 (2020-01-25) | |||
| Venue | PNC Arena | |||
| City | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States | |||
| Attendance | 14,533[1] | |||
| Total gate | $1,303,320[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. dos Santos (also known asUFC Fight Night 166 andUFC on ESPN+ 24) was amixed martial arts event produced by theUltimate Fighting Championship that took place on January 25, 2020, atPNC Arena inRaleigh, North Carolina, United States.[2]
The event was the first that the promotion hosted in Raleigh and first inNorth Carolina sinceUFC on Fox: Jacaré vs. Brunson 2 in January 2018.[2]
A heavyweight bout betweenCurtis Blaydes and formerUFC Heavyweight ChampionJunior dos Santos served as the event headliner.[3]
A bantamweight bout was scheduled between formerUFC Lightweight ChampionFrankie Edgar andCory Sandhagen at the event. However, Edgar was withdrawn from the fight in favour of facingChan Sung Jung in a featherweight bout atUFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie after Jung's original opponent, former featherweight title challengerBrian Ortega, pulled out due to a knee injury.[4] In turn, Sandhagen was removed from the card and expected to be rescheduled for a future event after promotion officials deemed that a suitable opponent could not be arranged.[5]
A middleweight bout betweenBevon Lewis and Alen Amedovski was scheduled to take place at the event. However, Amedovski was forced to pull out of the event citing injury and was replaced byDequan Townsend.[6]
A strawweight bout betweenHannah Cifers andBrianna Van Buren was scheduled to take place at the event. However, Van Buren was pulled from the event due to undisclosed reasons and replaced by formerInvicta FC Strawweight ChampionAngela Hill.[7]
Featherweight fightersJosh Emmett andNad Narimani pulled out of their scheduled fights againstArnold Allen andNik Lentz respectively, citing injuries.[8] As a result, Allen and Lentz faced each other at the event.[9]
| Main Card (ESPN+) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Curtis Blaydes | def. | Junior dos Santos | TKO (punches) | 2 | 1:06 | |
| Welterweight | Michael Chiesa | def. | Rafael dos Anjos | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Flyweight | Alex Perez | def. | Jordan Espinosa | Technical Submission (arm-triangle choke) | 1 | 2:33 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Angela Hill | def. | Hannah Cifers | TKO (elbows and punches) | 2 | 4:26 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Jamahal Hill | def. | Darko Stošić | Decision (unanimous) (29–27, 29–27, 29–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary Card (ESPN+) | |||||||
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Middleweight | Bevon Lewis | def. | Dequan Townsend | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Featherweight | Arnold Allen | def. | Nik Lentz | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Women's Flyweight | Justine Kish | def. | Lucie Pudilová | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Montel Jackson | def. | Felipe Colares | Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 30–26, 30–25) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Women's Bantamweight | Sara McMann | def. | Lina Länsberg | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–26, 30–25) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Brett Johns | def. | Tony Gravely | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 3 | 2:53 | |
| Featherweight | Herbert Burns | def. | Nate Landwehr | KO (knee) | 1 | 2:43 | |
The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses.[11]
