| UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | November 11, 2017 (2017-11-11) | |||
| Venue | Ted Constant Convocation Center | |||
| City | Norfolk, Virginia | |||
| Attendance | 8,442[1] | |||
| Total gate | $642,070[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis (also known asUFC Fight Night 120) was amixed martial arts event produced by theUltimate Fighting Championship held on November 11, 2017, atTed Constant Convocation Center inNorfolk, Virginia.[2]
The event marked the first time that the promotion visited theHampton Roads area of Virginia.[2]
A lightweight bout betweenDustin Poirier and formerWEC andUFC Lightweight ChampionAnthony Pettis served as the event headliner.[3][4]
A light heavyweight bout betweenJared Cannonier andAntônio Rogério Nogueira was briefly linked to serve as the co-headliner at this event.[5] The fight was rescheduled to take place a month later atUFC on Fox: Lawler vs. dos Anjos.[6]
At the weigh ins,Matthew Lopez weighed in at 138.5 pounds, 2.5 pounds over the bantamweight upper limit of 136 pounds. The bout proceeded at a catchweight and Lopez forfeited 20% of his purse toRaphael Assunção.[7]
| Main Card (Fox Sports 1) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Lightweight | Dustin Poirier | def. | Anthony Pettis | Submission (body triangle) | 3 | 2:08 | |
| Welterweight | Matt Brown | def. | Diego Sanchez | KO (elbow) | 1 | 3:44 | |
| Heavyweight | Andrei Arlovski | def. | Júnior Albini | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Cezar Ferreira | def. | Nate Marquardt | Decision (split) (28–29, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Catchweight (138.5 lb) | Raphael Assunção | def. | Matthew Lopez | KO (punch) | 3 | 1:50 | |
| Lightweight | Clay Guida | def. | Joe Lauzon | TKO (punches and elbows) | 1 | 1:07 | |
| Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1) | |||||||
| Bantamweight | Marlon Moraes | def. | John Dodson | Decision (split) (30–27, 27–30, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Tatiana Suarez | def. | Viviane Pereira | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–26) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | Sage Northcutt | def. | Michel Quiñones | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Nina Ansaroff | def. | Angela Hill | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
| Welterweight | Sean Strickland | def. | Court McGee | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | [a] |
| Light Heavyweight | Jake Collier | def. | Marcel Fortuna | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Karl Roberson | def. | Darren Stewart | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 3:41 | |
The following fighters were awarded $50,000 bonuses:[10]
The following is the reported payout to the fighters as reported to the Virginia Department of Professional & Occupational Regulation. It does not include sponsor money or "locker room" bonuses often given by the UFC and also do not include the UFC's traditional "fight night" bonuses. The total disclosed payout for the event was $1,935,600.[11]
^Although not included on the initial report, Matthew Lopez was fined 20 percent of his purse ($3,600) for failing to make the required weight for his fight with Raphael Assunção. That money was issued to Assunção, a VDPOR official confirmed.
