UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes

Back to the UFC Apex, the card featured a Heavyweight main event between Sergei Pavlovich and Curtis Blaydes, matching Pavlovich’s fast-start knockout style against Blaydes’s wrestling base. A Bantamweight bout between Song Yadong and Ricky Simon was originally expected to appear on the card, but it was delayed and moved to headline the following week’s event after that card’s original headliner was canceled.