Event Description
A UFC Welterweight Championship bout between the current champion Kamaru Usman and former interim title holder Colby Covington has been slated to serve as the event headliner.[4]
A UFC Featherweight Championship bout between the current champion Max Holloway and Alexander Volkanovski is expected to take place at the event.[5]
A UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship bout between the current champion Amanda Nunes and the inaugural UFC Women's Featherweight Champion Germaine de Randamie is expected to take place at the event.[6] The pairing previously met in November 2013 at UFC: Fight for the Troops 3, with Nunes winning the encounter via TKO in the first round.[7]
Santiago Ponzinibbio was expected to face Robbie Lawler at the event. However, Ponzinibbio pulled out of the fight on October 12 citing a staph infection. Promotional officials have not announced whether or not Lawler will face a replacement on the card, or be rescheduled for a separate event instead.[8]
Sergio Pettis was briefly linked to a bout with Kai Kara-France at the event.[9] However, Pettis revealed in early October that he was entertaining offers from other promotions after the completion of his previous contract and did not currently have a fight lined up with the promotion.[10] Kara-France is now expected to face Brandon Moreno.[11]
