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Lewis vs Oleinik
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The
Ultimate Fighting Championship continues its busy August full
of events from Las Vegas with
UFC Fight Night 174, and two fighters missed weight.
The 11-fight card is headlined by a bout between heavyweight
contenders Derrick
Lewis and Alexey
Oleynik. “The Black Beast” has become one of the UFC’s most
popular fighters due to his large personality and penchant for
devastating knockouts. However, Lewis (23-8, 1 NC) hasn’t scored a
knockout since his incredible third-round stoppage of Alexander
Volkov back in 2018. The heavyweight bounced back from losses
to Daniel
Cormier and Junior dos
Santos and is currently on a two-fight win streak after
capturing decisions over Ilir Latifi
and Blagoy
Ivanov. As always, Lewis had to cut weight to make the
heavyweight limit and came in at exactly 265 pounds.
Oleynik (59-13-1) will surely look to take advantage of Lewis’
ground game as “The Boa Constrictor” has picked up 46 wins via
submission. The Russian is also on a two-fight win streak having
outgrappled Fabricio
Werdum in his most recent bout and tapped Maurice
Greene with an armbar. The 43-year-old has been knocked out
recently, though, as Walt Harris
demolished him in just 12 seconds and Alistair
Overeem needed just one round to defeat him. Oleynik looked
prepared for the challenge on the scales and officially weighed a
svelte 227 pounds.
All bouts are now official after the weigh-ins took place Friday
morning, although two fighters missed weight: Beneil
Dariush (158)* and Laureano
Staropoli (174.5)**. Both Dariush and Staropoli were fined was
fined 20 percent of their respective purses. Tim Means
initially hit the scales at 172.5 pounds, but on his second
attempt, he weighed in at 171 pounds.
UFC Fight Night 174 will air in its entirety on ESPN+. The 6 p.m.
ET/3 p.m. PT preliminary portion will be followed by the main card
at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
UFC Fight Night 174 Weigh-in Results:
Derrick
Lewis (265) vs. Alexey
Oleynik (227)
Omari
Akhmedov (185.75) vs. Chris
Weidman (186)
Darren
Stewart (186) vs. Maki Pitolo
(186)
Julija
Stoliarenko (136) vs. Yana
Kunitskaya (135.5)
Beneil
Dariush (158)* vs. Scott
Holtzman (156)
Tim
Means (171) vs. Laureano
Staropoli (174.5)**
Kevin
Holland (183.5) vs. Joaquin
Buckley (185)
Nasrat
Haqparast (156) vs. Alex Munoz
(156)
Andrew
Sanchez (185.5) vs. Wellington
Turman (185.5)
Justin
Jaynes (146) vs. Gavin
Tucker (146)
Peter
Barrett (145.5) vs. Youssef
Zalal (146)
Irwin
Rivera (136) vs. Ali AlQaisi
(136)
* Dariush missed weight by two pounds and has been fined 20
percent of his purse.
** Staropoli missed weight by 3.5 pounds and has been fined 20
percent of his purse.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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