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UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that is planned to take place on December 14, 2019 at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, United States.
Fight card
Main Card
Welterweight Kamaru Usman (c) vs. Colby Covington UFC Welterweight Championship
Featherweight Max Holloway (c) vs. Alexander Volkanovski UFC Featherweight Championship
Women's Bantamweight Amanda Nunes (c) vs. Germaine de Randamie UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship
Bantamweight Marlon Moraes vs. José Aldo
Bantamweight Petr Yan vs. Urijah Faber
Preliminary Card
Welterweight Geoff Neal vs. Mike Perry
Women's Bantamweight Ketlen Vieira vs. Irene Aldana
Middleweight Ian Heinisch vs. Omari Akhmedov
Welterweight Matt Brown vs. Ben Saunders
Early Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Featherweight Chase Hooper vs. Daniel Teymur
Flyweight Brandon Moreno vs. Kai Kara-France
Women's Flyweight Jessica Eye vs. Viviane Araujo
Middleweight Punahele Soriano vs. Oskar Piechota
Background
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.
A UFC Featherweight Championship bout between the current champion Max Holloway and Alexander Volkanovski is expected to take place at the event.
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. 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.
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. Despite having over two months before the event, promotion officials elected to remove Lawler from the card entirely instead of having him face a replacement.
Sergio Pettis was briefly linked to a bout with Kai Kara-France at the event. 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. Kara-France is now expected to face Brandon Moreno.
