Overview

• The five-round main event is set for September 13 at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, with prelims at 3 p.m. ET and the main card at 6 p.m. ET on the ESPN App and ESPN+.
• The bout is widely framed as a title eliminator in a fluid 145-pound landscape, with sportsbooks listing Silva around -260 to -280 and Lopes near +220.
• Fight week saw a tense hallway encounter between camps at the fighter hotel that security stepped in to defuse, according to reports.
• Silva publicly offered to bet his entire purse that Lopes would not land a takedown, a wager Lopes declined.
• Flyweight Alessandro Costa said the UFC would not allow Lopes to corner him earlier on the card, though Costa plans to work Lopes’ corner for the main event.