UFC 265: LEWIS vs GANE & NUNES vs. PENA IS OFFICIAL

UFC^® ANNOUNCES MULTI-EVENT PARTNERSHIP WITH TOYOTA CENTER – INTERIM HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT TO HEADLINE

UFC 265: LEWIS vs GANE TICKETS

ON SALE FRIDAY, JULY 9

FEATURED BOUTS:

(#2) DERRICK LEWIS vs. (#3) CIRYL GANE

(C) AMANDA NUNES vs. (#6) JULIANNA PENA

(#4) JOSE ALDO vs. (#8) PEDRO MUNHOZ

Las Vegas – UFC^® in the present day introduced a multi-event partnership with Toyota Heart in Houston, Texas following the record-breaking promote out of UFC 262: OLIVEIRA vs CHANDLER in Could. The partnership, which features a potential Pay-Per-View occasion in 2022, kicks off with UFC 265: LEWIS vs GANE on Saturday, August 7, 2021. The primary occasion will see Houston hometown hero and No. 2 ranked Derrick Lewis tackle undefeated hanging sensation and No. 3 ranked Ciryl Gane for the interim UFC heavyweight championship. Within the co-main occasion, the best ladies’s martial artist of all time graces the Octagon as soon as once more as UFC featherweight and bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes goals to retain her 135-pound title when she faces No. 6 ranked Julianna Pena.

“I like town of Houston. We had a sold-out occasion in Could, town and followers are unimaginable, so we’re heading proper again in August,” UFC President Dana White stated. “Working with Tilman and his group has been superb and we are going to proceed making Toyota Heart a house for UFC, together with bringing one other PPV to town subsequent 12 months.”

“We’re lucky to have a venue like Toyota Heart within the nice metropolis of Houston,” stated Houston Rockets proprietor Tilman Fertitta. “Because the operator of Toyota Heart, it’s all the time going to be our aim to convey extra thrilling, high-quality leisure to our group.”

UFC 265: LEWIS vs GANE will happen Saturday, August 7 at Toyota Heart in Houston, Texas. All bouts will probably be simulcast on ESPN+ in English and Spanish starting at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT with the UFC Battle Go prelims. The prelims will proceed solely on ESPN2 & ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT adopted by the ESPN+ Pay-Per-View foremost card will kick off at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.

UFC 265: LEWIS vs GANE tickets will go on sale at Friday, July 9 at 10 a.m. CT and can be found for buy at toyotacenter.com. Ticket gross sales are restricted to eight (8) per particular person. UFC Battle Membership^® members can have the chance to buy tickets Wednesday, July 7 at 10 a.m. CT by way of the web site www.ufcfightclub.com. A particular Web ticket pre-sale will probably be out there to UFC e-newsletter subscribers Thursday, July 8 beginning at 10 a.m. CT. To entry this presale, customers should register for the UFC e-newsletter by means of UFC.com.

Houston’s personal Lewis (25-7, combating out of Houston, Texas) goals to placed on a present for his hometown followers and eventually wrap UFC gold round his waist. The document holder for many knockouts in UFC heavyweight historical past with 12, Lewis proved himself as among the best on this planet with a victory over present champion Francis Ngannou, in addition to iconic wins over Alexander Volkov, Travis Browne and Curtis Blaydes. He now seems to safe the general knockout document for the UFC by turning into the primary man to complete Gane after which transfer on to as soon as once more vanquish Ngannou for the undisputed crown.

Gane (9-0, combating out of Paris, France) competes within the shortest turnaround of his MMA profession together with his sights set on claiming his first UFC title. Knowledgeable in MMA for lower than three years, Gane has had a meteoric rise by means of the heavyweight division, spurred on by dynamic victories over Junior Dos Santos, Don’Story Mayes and most just lately Alexander Volkov. Gane now seems to indicate off his ever-improving skillset by defeating Lewis to arrange a future conflict with champion and former coaching companion Francis Ngannou.

No. 1 ladies’s pound-for-pound fighter Nunes (21-4, combating out of Coral Springs, Fla., by means of Bahia, Brazil) returns to the bantamweight division intent on delivering one other outstanding title protection. Thought-about the best ladies’s athlete to compete within the Octagon, Nunes owns virtually each notable document in ladies’s MMA, together with most UFC wins, most knockouts and longest win streak. She additional carved her identify into the historical past books by defeating each former UFC ladies’s bantamweight and featherweight champion, together with Ronda Rousey, Cris Cyborg and Holly Holm. Nunes now plans to lift the bar even larger by taking out Pena.

The Final Fighter season 18 winner Pena (11-4, combating out of Chicago, In poor health.) seems to say the largest victory of her profession and safe her first title. A well-rounded grappler, she cemented herself as among the best fighters on this planet by defeating former UFC champion Nicco Montano, in addition to former title challengers Jessica Eye, Cat Zingano and Sara McMann. Now, Pena intends to trip the momentum of her current victory over McMann to upset Nunes and shock the world.

Further bouts on the cardboard embrace:

• Former UFC featherweight champion and No. 4 ranked bantamweight Jose Aldo (29-7, combating out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) faces off with No. 8 Pedro Munhoz (19-5, 1 NC, combating out of Sao Paulo, Brazil) in a bout all however assured to ship motion
• No. 5 ranked welterweight Vicente Luque (20-7-1, combating out of Brasilia, Brazil) locks horns with No. 6 Michael Chiesa (18-4, combating out of Spokane Valley, Wash.) in a pivotal bout
• An intriguing bantamweight bout sees Song Yadong (16-5-1, 1 NC, combating out of Heilongjiang, China) tackle standout grappler Casey Kenney (16-3-1, combating out of Tucsan, Ariz.)
• Flyweights Manel Kape (15-6, combating out of Phuket, Thailand by means of Porto, Portugal) and Ode’ Osbourne (9-3, 1 NC, combating out of Milwaukee, Wisc.) intend to ship standout performances and break into the rankings
• An thrilling rematch within the ladies’s strawweight division sees No. 10 Tecia Torres (12-5, combating out of Colorado Springs, Colo.) replicate her 2015 win over No. 12 Angela Hill (13-9, combating out of San Diego, Calif.)
• Dana White’s Contender Sequence veteran Victoria Leonardo (8-4, combating out of Shreveport, La.) goals to spoil the UFC debut of Melissa Gatto (6-0-2, combating out of State of Paraná, Brazil)
• Alonzo Menifield (10-2, combating out of Dallas, Texas) and Ed Herman (27-14, 1 NC, combating out of Portland, Ore.) meet in a heavy handed mild heavyweight bout
• Strawweight veterans lock horns as Karolina Kowalkiewicz (13-6, combating out of Lodz, Poland) takes on Jessica Penne (13-6, combating out of Huntington Seashore, Calif.)
• Vince Morales (9-6, combating out of Las Vegas, Nev.) and Drako Rodriguez (7-2, combating out of  Sioux Metropolis, Iowa) intend to placed on a show-stealing efficiency at bantamweight
• Bantamweights Johnny Munoz (10-1, combating out of Norco, Calif.) and Jamey Simmons (7-3, combating out of Milwaukee, Wisc.) vie to safe their first UFC victories

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