UFC Fight Night Boetsch vs Henderson 2015-06-06

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UFC Fight Night Boetsch vs Henderson

Date
Sat 6th June 2015 (UTC)
Sat 6th June 2015 (Local)

Timestamp
2015-06-06T00:00:00

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00:00:00 UTC

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UFC

Season
2015

Round
18

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The event was expected to be headlined by a light heavyweight bout between top contenders Daniel Cormier and Ryan Bader. However on April 28, due to Jon Jones' hit-and-run incident leading up to his fight at UFC 187 against Anthony Johnson, the UFC decided to strip him of the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship and suspend him indefinitely. Jones was replaced by Cormier. In turn, a middleweight bout between Tim Boetsch and mixed martial arts legend Dan Henderson was promoted to the main event. Subsequently, Bader was pulled from the event entirely.

A bantamweight bout between Joe Soto and Anthony Birchak was originally expected to take place at UFC 177. However, on the day of weigh ins, Soto was pulled from the fight to replace Renan Barão in a UFC Bantamweight Championship bout against champion T.J. Dillashaw, as Barão had to be admitted to the hospital as a result of his attempts to cut weight. Birchak was removed from the card entirely. The fight was later rescheduled for this event.

Alan Jouban was expected to face Brian Ebersole at the event. However, Jouban pulled out of the fight in late March citing injury and was replaced by Omari Akhmedov.

Zubaira Tukhugov was expected to face Thiago Tavares at the event. However on April 25, it was announced that Tukhugov had to pull out of the fight due to an undisclosed injury. Brian Ortega was announced as his replacement on May 6.

Daniel Sarafian was expected to face Ricardo Abreu at this event. However on May 4, Sarafian was forced to withdraw from the event due to injury and was replaced by Jake Collier.

Both Yancy Medeiros and Leonardo Morales missed weight on their first attempts at the weigh-ins, coming in at 159.5 lbs and 140 lbs respectively. They were both given additional time to make the weight limits for their respective weight classes, but Medeiros made no attempts to cut further. Morales would miss weight again on his second attempt, coming in at 137 lbs. As a result, they were both fined 20 percent of their fight purses, which went to Dustin Poirier and José Alberto Quiñonez respectively.

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Result List

02	Ben Rothwell	WIN
02	Matt Mitrione	LOSS
03	Dustin Poirier	WIN
04	Brian Ortega	WIN
06	Alex Caceres	LOSS
07	Derrick Lewis	LOSS
08	Omari Akhmedov	WIN
09	Chris Wade	WIN
10	Justin Edwards	LOSS
11	Jake Collier	WIN

Result Description
Middleweight Dan Henderson def. Tim Boetsch KO (punches)
Heavyweight Ben Rothwell def. Matt Mitrione Submission (guillotine choke)
Catchweight (159.5 lbs) Dustin Poirier def. Yancy Medeiros TKO (body kick and punches)
Featherweight Brian Ortega def. Thiago Tavares TKO (punches)
Bantamweight Anthony Birchak def. Joe Soto KO (punches)
Bantamweight Francisco Rivera def. Alex Caceres KO (punches)

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