| UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | September 23, 2023 (2023-09-23) | |||
| Venue | UFC Apex | |||
| City | Enterprise, Nevada, United States | |||
| Attendance | Not announced[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot (also known asUFC Fight Night 228,UFC on ESPN+ 86 andUFC Vegas 79) was amixed martial arts event produced by theUltimate Fighting Championship that took place on September 23, 2023, at theUFC Apex facility inEnterprise, Nevada, part of theLas Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.[2]
A lightweight bout betweenRafael Fiziev and formerKSW Featherweight andLightweight ChampionMateusz Gamrot headlined the event.[3]
A heavyweight bout between promotional newcomer Valter Walker andJake Collier was booked for this event.[4] However, Walker withdrew due to an ankle injury.[5] He was replaced byThe Ultimate Fighter: Team Peña vs. Team Nunes heavyweight winner Mohammed Usman.[6]
A flyweight bout betweenBruno Gustavo da Silva andCody Durden was expected for this event. However, Durden was instead scheduled to face Jake Hadley atUFC on ESPN: Sandhagen vs. Font and the bout was cancelled.[7]
A middleweight bout between Aliaskhab Khizriev andJacob Malkoun was scheduled for the event. However, Khizriev was pulled from the event for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by promotional newcomerRobert Bryczek.[8][9] Bryczek then also pulled out of the fight and was replaced byCody Brundage.[10]
| Main card (ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Lightweight | Mateusz Gamrot | def. | Rafael Fiziev | TKO (knee injury) | 2 | 2:03 | |
| Featherweight | Bryce Mitchell | def. | Dan Ige | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Marina Rodriguez | def. | Michelle Waterson-Gomez | TKO (punches) | 2 | 2:42 | |
| Welterweight | Bryan Battle | def. | AJ Fletcher | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 2 | 4:32 | |
| Featherweight | Charles Jourdain | def. | Ricardo Ramos | Submission (guillotine choke) | 1 | 3:12 | |
| Preliminary card (ESPN+) | |||||||
| Bantamweight | Dan Argueta | vs. | Miles Johns | No Contest (overturned) | 3 | 5:00 | [a] |
| Welterweight | Tim Means | def. | André Fialho | TKO (punches) | 3 | 1:15 | |
| Middleweight | Cody Brundage | def. | Jacob Malkoun | DQ (illegal elbow) | 1 | 4:15 | [b] |
| Heavyweight | Mohammed Usman | def. | Jake Collier | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Mizuki Inoue | def. | Hannah Goldy | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Women's Bantamweight | Montserrat Rendon | def. | Tamires Vidal | Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses.[12]
