Derrick Lewis will be aiming to end his losing streak as he takes on Rodrigo Nascimento at UFC Fight Night this evening.
Lewis has been beaten in four of his last five fights and most recently lost by unanimous decision to Jailton Almeida in Brazil last year.
He now takes on another impressive Brazilian opponent who is set to enter the cage for his first-ever main event in the UFC.
Nascimento has won his last three bouts and has now been rewarded with the showpiece slot after beating Don’Tale Mayes in November.
Lewis vs Nascimento: Date and UK start time
This UFC Fight Night will take place on Saturday, May 11.
It will be held at the Enterprise Center in St Louis, Missouri.
The preliminary card is expected to get started at 10pm UK time before the main card gets going at 12am and main event cagewalks start at around 2am.
Lewis vs Nascimento: How to follow
The event will be broadcast live on TNT Sports in the UK.
Coverage is set to begin at 12am with the main card.
More details on how to sign up and watch the action on discovery+ can be found here.
Lewis vs Nascimento: Undercard
Subject to change
Main card
- MAIN EVENT: Derrick Lewis vs Rodrigo Nascimento
- Joaquin Buckley vs Nursulton Ruziboev
- Alonzo Menifield vs Carlos Ulberg
- Carlos Diego Ferreira vs Mateusz Rebecki
- Alex Caceres vs Sean Woodson
- Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs Robelis Despaigne
Preliminary card
- Chase Hooper vs Viacheslav Borshchev
- Terrance McKinney vs Esteban Ribovics
- Tabatha Ricci vs Tecia Pennington
- Billy Goff vs Trey Waters
- Charles Johnson vs Jake Hadley
- Jared Gooden vs Kevin Jousset
- JJ Aldrich vs Veronica Hardy
Lewis vs Nascimento: What has been said?
Lewis was praised for his weight loss ahead of his last fight and he explained how he managed to trim down.
“I guess you could say the training, the running,” Lewis said.
“I didn’t use to run back then. I’m running damn near every day.
“Back then, I was just doing Stairmaster – 30-minute Stairmaster – and just hitting mitts three rounds or five rounds, however many rounds my fight was back then.
“That’s all I was doing. That’s it. I was doing no jiu-jitsu or nothing like that. But now I’m doing everything.”
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