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UFC Fight Night 105: Lewis vs. Browne is an upcoming mixed martial arts event that will be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on February 19, 2017 at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Official fight card
Main Card
Heavyweight Derrick Lewis vs. Travis Browne
Middleweight Johny Hendricks vs. Hector Lombard
Featherweight Sam Sicilia vs. Gavin Tucker
Middleweight Elias Theodorou vs. Cezar Ferreira
Women's Bantamweight Sara McMann vs. Gina Mazany
Lightweight Alessandro Ricci vs. Paul Felder
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)
Welterweight Nordine Taleb vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio
Women's Strawweight Carla Esparza vs. Randa Markos
Bantamweight Aiemann Zahabi vs. Reginaldo Vieira
Middleweight Jack Marshman vs. Thiago Santos
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Middleweight Gerald Meerschaert vs. Ryan Janes
Background
The event will be the second that the promotion has been hosted in Nova Scotia, and the first since UFC Fight Night 54 in October of 2014.
A heavyweight bout between former UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior dos Santos and longtime divisional contender Stefan Struve was originally expected to headline the event. The pairing met once before in February 2009 at UFC 95, where Dos Santos defeated Struve (who was making his UFC debut) via TKO in the first round. However on January 12, Struve pulled out due to a shoulder injury. Despite having over six weeks before the event, promotion officials elected to remove Dos Santos.
Nearly two weeks later, it was announced that the new headliner would be a heavyweight matchup between Derrick Lewis and Travis Browne. The bout was scheduled to take place at UFC 208, but was moved a week later to headline this event.
Alvaro Herrera was expected to face Alessandro Ricci at the event. However, Herrera pulled out of the fight in mid-January citing injury and was replaced by Paul Felder.
Former UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship challenger Liz Carmouche was expected to face 2004 Olympic silver medalist in wrestling and fellow title challenger Sara McMann at the event, but pulled out on February 2. She was replaced by promotional newcomer Gina Mazany.
Michel Quinones was expected to face Alexander Volkanovski at the event, but Volkanovski announced on February 13 that the bout was scrapped due to Quinones being injured and no replacement being found.
Feb 13 - Updated fight card & background
Feb 17 - Updated fight card