The Ultimate Fighting Championship on Saturday will call upon ranked heavyweights to shoulder its marquee, as Derrick Lewis collides with Sergey Spivak in the UFC Fight Night 215 headliner. In the three-round co-main event, Ion Cutelaba takes on 2018 Dana White’s Contender Series graduate Kennedy Nzechukwu at 205 pounds.
Date, Time, Location for UFC Fight Night 215
UFC Fight Night “Lewis vs. Spivak” goes down on Saturday, Nov. 19 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The main card kicks off at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT. The prelims start at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
How to Watch UFC Fight Night ‘Lewis vs. Spivak’ Online
Anyone wishing to live stream UFC Fight Night 215 online will need to purchase an ESPN+ membership. The ESPN-owned streaming service has exclusive rights to UFC live streams, making ESPN+ the only way to view UFC Fight Night “Lewis vs. Spivak” online in the United States. The main card can be viewed on ESPN+ at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT, while the prelims can be seen on ESPN+ at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. Meanwhile, BT Sport is the lone broadcaster showing UFC Fight Night 215 live in the United Kingdom. Coverage for preliminary fights begins at 7 p.m. BST, with the main card scheduled to start at 9 p.m. BST. Finally, Foxtel TV customers in Australia can stream UFC Fight Night “Lewis vs. Spivak” online by using the Foxtel Go app and may also sign up for Kayo to watch ESPN online.
UFC Fight Night 215 Card, Odds
BetUS.com installs Spivak as a -200 favorite for the UFC Fight Night 215 main event, with Lewis as a +160 underdog. In the co-headliner, Nzechukwu is favored at -190, with Cutelaba coming back at +155.
Lewis enters the cage on the heels of back-to-back losses. Nevertheless, “The Black Beast” ranks second behind Andrei Arlovsk on the UFC’s all-time list with 17 wins as a heavyweight. Lewis last competed at UFC 277, where he succumbed to punches from Sergei Pavlovich less than a minute into their July 30 encounter. The 37-year-old Bob Perez protégé has delivered 21 of his 26 career victories by knockout or technical knockout.
Spivak, meanwhile, finds himself on a modest two-fight winning streak. The 27-year-old former World Warriors Fighting Championship titleholder last appeared on Aug. 6, when he put away Augusto Sakai with punches in the second round of their UFC on ESPN 40 pairing. Spivak boast a finish rate of 87%, having recorded 13 of his 15 professional wins by knockout, technical knockout or submission.
UFC Fight Night “Lewis vs. Spivak” also features a heavyweight scrap pitting the unbeaten Waldo Cortes-Acosta (-220) against Chase Sherman (+170) and a pair of welterweight tilts, as Andre Fialho (-115) meets Muslim Salikhov (-115) and Jack Della Maddalena (-600) faces Danny Roberts (+400). Flyweights anchor the seven-fight undercard, where Charles Johnson (-165) awaits former Fight Nights Global champion Zhalgas Zhumagulov at 125 pounds.
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