UFC on ESPN: Lemos vs. Jandiroba | ||||
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Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
Date | July 20, 2024 | |||
Venue | UFC Apex | |||
City | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |||
Event chronology | ||||
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UFC on ESPN: Lemos vs. Jandiroba (also known as UFC on ESPN 60 and UFC Vegas 94) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on July 20, 2024, at the UFC Apex facility, in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States. [1]
A women's strawweight bout between former UFC Women's Strawweight Championship challenger Amanda Lemos and former Invicta FC Strawweight Champion Virna Jandiroba is expected to headline the event. [2]
A featherweight bout between Dan Ige and Joanderson Brito was scheduled for the event. [3] However, Brito was forced to pull from the event due to a leg injury. [4] He was replaced by Chepe Mariscal. [5] Subsequently, Ige withdrew from this bout on the day of UFC 303 to serve as a replacement fighter at that event. [6] [7] Mariscal was eventually booked to face Damon Jackson at UFC Fight Night 242. [8]
A women's flyweight bout between Tracy Cortez and Miranda Maverick was scheduled to take place at this event. [9] However, Cortez was pulled from the contest in order to serve as a replacement against former two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Rose Namajunas a week earlier at UFC on ESPN: Namajunas vs. Cortez, after her original opponent Maycee Barber pulled out. [9] Maverick will instead face Dione Barbosa. [10]
Fight card (ESPN+) | |||||||
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Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
Women's Strawweight | Amanda Lemos | vs. | Virna Jandiroba | ||||
Middleweight | Brad Tavares | vs. | Park Jun-yong | ||||
Featherweight | Steve Garcia | vs. | Choi Seung-woo | ||||
Lightweight | Kurt Holobaugh | vs. | Kaynan Kruschewsky | ||||
Featherweight | Choi Doo-ho | vs. | Bill Algeo | ||||
Preliminary card (ESPN+) | |||||||
Flyweight | Cody Durden | vs. | Bruno Gustavo da Silva | ||||
Featherweight | Lee Jeong-yeong | vs. | Hyder Amil | ||||
Bantamweight | Brian Kelleher | vs. | Cody Gibson | ||||
Women's Flyweight | Miranda Maverick | vs. | Dione Barbosa | ||||
Lightweight | Loik Radzhabov | vs. | Trey Ogden | ||||
Women's Flyweight | Luana Carolina | vs. | Lucie Pudilová | ||||
Heavyweight | Mohammed Usman | vs. | Thomas Petersen |
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