| UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | August 8, 2020 (2020-08-08) | |||
| Venue | UFC Apex | |||
| City | Enterprise, Nevada, United States | |||
| Attendance | None (behind closed doors)[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik (also known asUFC Fight Night 174,UFC on ESPN+ 32 andUFC Vegas 6) was amixed martial arts event produced by theUltimate Fighting Championship on August 8, 2020 at theUFC Apex facility inEnterprise, Nevada, part of theLas Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.[2]
A heavyweight bout between formerUFC Heavyweight Championship challengerDerrick Lewis andAleksei Oleinik took place as the event headliner.[2]
A women's bantamweight bout between formerUFC Women's Flyweight ChampionNicco Montaño andJulia Avila was originally scheduled for the event.[3] However, the bout was rescheduled forUFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai after Montaño's coach, John Wood,tested positive for COVID-19.[4]
A women's bantamweight bout betweenKetlen Vieira and formerInvicta FC Bantamweight Champion andUFC Women's Featherweight Championship challengerYana Kunitskaya was originally scheduled for a week earlier atUFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Shahbazyan. However, it eventually moved to this event instead.[5] Subsequently, Vieira was removed from the card on July 30 due tovisa issues and replaced by returning veteranJulija Stoliarenko, who was the current Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion.[6] Vieira was then expected to face a different opponent atUFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill on September 12.[7]
A heavyweight bout betweenSergei Pavlovich andCiryl Gane was expected to take place at this event.[8] However, Pavlovich pulled out on July 15 due to an old knee injury that required surgery. He was replaced byShamil Abdurakhimov and the bout moved toUFC 253.[9] Gane and Abdurakhimov were originally scheduled forUFC 249, but Gane was forced to pull out of the event after he was struck by apneumothorax in training.[10] Subsequently, the bout would be rescheduled forUFC 251.[11] However, it was then cancelled a second time as Abdurakhimov was removed from the card for undisclosed reasons.[8]
A featherweight bout betweenSteve Garcia and Peter Barrett was scheduled for the event, but Garcia withdrew from the bout for an undisclosed reason on July 25 and was replaced byYoussef Zalal.[12]
A couple of fights, including a women's strawweight bout betweenNadia Kassem and Miranda Granger, as well as a featherweight bout betweenAlex Caceres andGiga Chikadze were expected to take place at this event. However, they never made it to the final card for unknown reasons.[13][14]
At the weigh-ins,Beneil Dariush andLaureano Staropoli missed weight for their respective bouts. Dariush weighed in at 158 pounds, two pounds over the lightweight non-title fight limit. Staropoli weighed in at 174.5 pounds, three and a half pounds over the welterweight non-title fight limit. Both of their bouts proceeded at a catchweight and they were each fined 20% of their individual purses, which went to their opponentsScott Holtzman andTim Means (Means was given one additional hour to make weight after initially weighing 172.5 pounds).[15]
| Main card (ESPN+) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Derrick Lewis | def. | Aleksei Oleinik | TKO (punches) | 2 | 0:21 | |
| Middleweight | Chris Weidman | def. | Omari Akhmedov | Decision (unanimous) (29–27, 29–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Darren Stewart | def. | Maki Pitolo | Submission (guillotine choke) | 1 | 3:41 | |
| Women's Bantamweight | Yana Kunitskaya | def. | Julija Stoliarenko | Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Catchweight (158 lb) | Beneil Dariush | def. | Scott Holtzman | KO (spinning backfist) | 1 | 4:38 | |
| Preliminary card (ESPN+) | |||||||
| Catchweight (174.5 lb) | Tim Means | def. | Laureano Staropoli | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Kevin Holland | def. | Joaquin Buckley | TKO (punch) | 3 | 0:32 | |
| Lightweight | Nasrat Haqparast | def. | Alexander Muñoz | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Andrew Sanchez | def. | Wellington Turman | KO (punch) | 1 | 4:14 | |
| Featherweight | Gavin Tucker | def. | Justin Jaynes | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 3 | 1:43 | |
| Featherweight | Youssef Zalal | def. | Peter Barrett | Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 30–26, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Irwin Rivera | def. | Ali AlQaisi | Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses.[18]
