UFC Fight Night 181 - Hall vs. Silva --- UFC Fight Night 183 - Felder vs. dos Anjos



UFC Fight Night 182: Santos vs. Teixeira (also known as UFC Vegas 13) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on November 7, 2020 at the UFC APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.


Fight card

Main card (ESPN 2 / ESPN+)

Light Heavyweight Thiago Santos vs. Glover Teixeira
Heavyweight Andrei Arlovski vs. Tanner Boser
Middleweight Ian Heinisch vs. Brendan Allen
Bantamweight Raoni Barcelos vs. Khalid Taha
Women's Strawweight Cláudia Gadelha vs. Yan Xiaonan

Preliminary Card (ESPN+)

Middleweight Trevin Giles vs. Bevon Lewis
Featherweight Giga Chikadze vs. Jamey Simmons
Heavyweight Marcos Rogério de Lima vs. Alexander Romanov
Featherweight Darren Elkins vs. Luiz Eduardo Garagorri
Welterweight Max Griffin vs. Ramiz Brahimaj
Bantamweight Gustavo Lopez vs. Anthony Birchak


Background

A light heavyweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight Championship challengers Thiago Santos and Glover Teixeira is expected to headline this event. They were initially scheduled to headline UFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill. However, the pairing was rescheduled for UFC on ESPN: Holm vs. Aldana after Teixeira tested positive for COVID-19 a week prior to the fight. On September 15, the bout was postponed again as Santos tested positive for the disease.

A middleweight bout between Ian Heinisch and Brendan Allen was previously scheduled to take place earlier this year at UFC on ESPN: Poirier vs. Hooker. However, Heinisch pulled out due to injury and the matchup was scrapped. The pairing has been rescheduled and is expected to take place at this event.

A strawweight bout between former UFC Women's Strawweight Championship challenger Claudia Gadelha and Yan Xiaonan was expected to take place at UFC 253, but a knee injury sustained by Gadelha ruled her out of the bout. The pairing was rescheduled for this event instead.

A lightweight bout between Carlos Diego Ferreira and Drew Dober was initially scheduled to take place in May at UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Weidman. However, the event was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. The pairing was then rescheduled for this event. In turn, Ferreira pulled out on October 22 due to an illness and a replacement is currently being sought.

A heavyweight bout between former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski and Tanner Boser was briefly scheduled for UFC on ESPN: Holm vs. Aldana, but was later moved to this event due to Arlovski being ill.

A heavyweight bout between Marcos Rogério de Lima and Alexander Romanov was initially scheduled to take place a month earlier at UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai. However, de Lima pulled out after testing positive for COVID-19. The pairing is now expected to take place at this event.

Philipe Lins was expected to face Don'Tale Mayes in a heavyweight bout at the event. However on October 14, it was announced that Lins had a knee injury and pulled out of the event. Mayes is now expected to face Roque Martinez a week later at UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. dos Anjos.

A featherweight bout between Jeremy Stephens and Arnold Allen was scheduled to take place at the event. However, Stephens was forced to withdraw from the event in late October citing injury. It is unclear whether a replacment will be sought by the UFC.

A bantamweight bout between Khalid Taha and Jack Shore was expected to take place at the event. However, Shore was removed from the bout in late-October due to undisclosed reasons and replaced by Raoni Barcelos.

Felipe Colares pulled out of a scheduled bantamweight bout against Gustavo Lopez during fight week as he tested positive for COVID-19. He was replaced by returning veteran Anthony Birchak.


Nov 5 - Updated fight card & background

Nov 5 - Updated fight card & background

Just went to put the rest of my picks in and it said event is live. Event actually doesn't start for another hour and fifteen minutes. I have ESPN+ I should know. I watch the events most of the time. Just enjoy helping out on this site still.

Is there a reason that the competition is closed a lot earlier than the actual event? Thought maybe it had to do with getting everyones choices in time to be calculated correctly or something. But, was wondering why over an hour before the event starts? Just curious... Hope everyone has a great evening and enjoys the fights.

Cheers

Hello,

Yes there is a good reason. UFC has sometimes changed the scheduled start time in the last minute and started an hour earlier. This has happened a few times in the past and since years now we always close the competition about an hour before the event official start time at the moment of creating the competition.

Good to know. Yeah, I figured it had to do with either UFC or just being well prepared for the events. Turns out both.

Thank you for responding. I will make sure to get my choices in a day early when you usually release them. Been mad busy, so hadn't had a chance to really watch anything or do the comps. Was just nice to get watch it on the day it happened. Pretty good night of fights too.