UFC 265 Full Fight Card: Derrick Lewis vs Ciryl Gane to fight for the UFC Heavyweight interim title


UFC 265 Full Fight Card: Derrick Lewis vs Ciryl Gane to fight for the UFC Heavyweight interim title

UFC 265 full fight

UFC produced an absolutely shocking main event for UFC 265 by announcing an interim title fight between Derrick Lewis and Ciryl Gane. Along with this the fight card is stacked from top to bottom, here’s what more is in UFC 265 Full Fight Card.

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The main event will be headlined by the interim title fight between Lewis and Gane. The co-main event will feature the fight of UFC two-division women’s champion, Amanda Nunes facing Julianna Pena to defend her Bantamweight title.

Along with these fights, the fight card holds much more interesting fights. Here is how the UFC 265 full fight card looks like.

UFC 265 Full Fight Card: Main Card

Derrick Lewis vs Ciryl Gane (Heavyweight Interim Title Fight)

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UFC 265 full fight card
Derrick Lewis vs Ciryl Gane

The number 2nd ranked UFC Heavyweight fighter, Derrick Lewis will be facing the number 3rd ranked UFC Heavyweight fighter, Ciryl Gane in the main event of UFC 265. This fight is scheduled for the interim Heavyweight title and the winner will be facing Francis Ngannou to unify the title.

UFC was targeting a fight between Lewis and Ngannou but due to mismatching of the dates with Ngannou, the promotion announced this interim title fight. Gane is still undefeated in his MMA career and he is going to face the guy with the record of most knockouts in UFC history.

This fight is going to be a hack of the main event.

Amanda Nunes vs Julianna Pena (Women’s Bantamweight Title Fight)

Amanda Nunes vs Julianna Pena
Amanda Nunes vs Julianna Pena

The UFC two-division women’s champion, Amanda Nunes will be defending her title against Julianna Pena in the co-main event of UFC 265. Nunes is no doubt one of the most dominating champions in UFC history and she’ll look forward to adding one more title defense to her perfect record.

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Pena is coming into this fight with a win against Sara McMann in her last fight at UFC 257 and she is believed to be a tough challenge for Nunes. It is going to be interested to see whether Pena will be pulling a major upset in this one.

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  • Michael Chiesa vs Vicente Luque
  • Song Yadong vs Casey Kenney

UFC 265 Full Fight Card: Preliminary Card

  • Tecia Torres vs Angela Hill
  • Bobby Green vs Rafael Fiziev
  • Alonzo Menifield vs Ed Herman

UFC 265 Full Fight Card: Early Prelims

  • Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs Jessica Penne
  • Manel Kape vs Ode Osbourne
  • Victoria Leonardo vs Melissa Gatto
  • Vince Morales vs Drako Rodriguez
  • Johnny Munhoz vs Jamey Simmons

Also Read: “I’m still getting paid the same,” Derrick Lewis is unfazed by the fact that he isn’t facing Francis Ngannou at UFC 265.