| UFC on ESPN: Santos vs. Hill | ||||
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| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | August 6, 2022 (2022-08-06) | |||
| Venue | UFC Apex | |||
| City | Enterprise, Nevada, United States | |||
| Attendance | Not announced[1] | |||
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UFC on ESPN: Santos vs. Hill (also known asUFC on ESPN 40 andUFC Vegas 59) was amixed martial arts event produced by theUltimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 6, 2022, at theUFC Apex facility inEnterprise, Nevada, part of theLas Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.[2]
A light heavyweight bout between formerUFC Light Heavyweight title challengerThiago Santos andJamahal Hill headlined the event.[3]
The heavyweight and women's flyweight finals ofThe Ultimate Fighter: Team Peña vs. Team Nunes took place at the event.[4]
FormerKSW Women's Flyweight ChampionAriane Lipski andPriscila Cachoeira were expected to meet in a flyweight bout at this event.[5] They were previously scheduled to fight atUFC Fight Night: Błachowicz vs. Jacaré in November 2019, but Cachoeira withdrew after being suspended for the use of a diuretic.[6] At the weigh-ins, Lipski weighed in at 128.5 pounds, two and a half pounds over the flyweight non-title fight limit. The bout was originally expected to proceed at catchweight with Lipski fined 20% of her purse.[7] However, the fight was removed from the card on the day of the event due to Lipski not being medically cleared, and was postponed one week toUFC on ESPN: Vera vs. Cruz.[8]
A featherweight bout betweenNate Landwehr andZubaira Tukhugov was expected to take place at the event.[9] However, Tukhugov pulled out of the fight due to allegedvisa issues which restricted his travel and was replaced by David Onama atUFC on ESPN: Vera vs. Cruz a week later.[10]
A welterweight bout betweenJason Witt and Josh Quinlan was expected to take place at this event.[11] However, it was pushed back one week to UFC on ESPN: Vera vs. Cruz after Quinlan was pulled for an atypical drug finding: long-term metabolite (or M3 metabolite) of the steroiddehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT) in his urine sample.[12]
| Main card (ESPN / ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Jamahal Hill | def. | Thiago Santos | TKO (punches and elbows) | 4 | 2:31 | |
| Welterweight | Geoff Neal | def. | Vicente Luque | KO (punches) | 3 | 2:01 | |
| Heavyweight | Mohammed Usman | def. | Zac Pauga | KO (punches) | 2 | 0:36 | [a] |
| Women's Flyweight | Juliana Miller | def. | Brogan Walker | TKO (punches and elbows) | 3 | 3:57 | [b] |
| Heavyweight | Serghei Spivac | def. | Augusto Sakai | TKO (punches) | 2 | 3:42 | |
| Lightweight | Terrance McKinney | def. | Erick Gonzalez | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 2:17 | |
| Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+) | |||||||
| Middleweight | Michał Oleksiejczuk | def. | Sam Alvey | TKO (punches) | 1 | 1:56 | |
| Welterweight | Bryan Battle | def. | Takashi Sato | KO (head kick) | 1 | 0:44 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Cory McKenna | def. | Miranda Granger | Submission (Von Flue choke) | 2 | 1:03 | |
| Women's Bantamweight | Mayra Bueno Silva | def. | Stephanie Egger | Submission (armbar) | 1 | 1:17 | |
The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses.[14]
With ten finishes in ten bouts, this event tiesUFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Bisping for a100 percent finish rate for all bouts in a single UFC event.[15]
