| UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz | ||||
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| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | August 13, 2022 | |||
| Venue | Pechanga Arena | |||
| City | San Diego, California, United States | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz (also known as UFC Fight Night 209 and UFC on ESPN+ 67) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on August 13, 2022, at Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California, United States. [1]
A bantamweight bout between Marlon Vera and former two-time UFC Bantamweight Champion (also former WEC Bantamweight Champion) Dominick Cruz is expected to headline the event. [1]
Viviane Araújo is expected to face Alexa Grasso in a women's flyweight bout. [2] The pair was previously scheduled to meet at UFC 270, but Araújo was forced to pull out from the event due to injury. [3]
| Main card (ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Bantamweight | Marlon Vera | vs. | Dominick Cruz | ||||
| Women's Flyweight | Alexa Grasso | vs. | Viviane Araújo | ||||
| Flyweight | Malcolm Gordon | vs. | Allan Nascimento | ||||
| Women's Bantamweight | Aspen Ladd | vs. | Sara McMann | ||||
| Light Heavyweight | Devin Clark | vs. | Azamat Murzakanov | ||||
| Middleweight | Gerald Meerschaert | vs. | Bruno Silva | ||||
| Heavyweight | Martin Buday | vs. | Łukasz Brzeski | ||||
| Women's Strawweight | Yazmin Jauregui | vs. | Istela Nunes | ||||
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