UFC Fight Night 215 took a significant hit just hours before its featured bout was set to go down.
Derrick Lewis was forced to withdraw from his scheduled heavyweight headliner against Sergey Spivak due to a non-COVID related illness, leaving Saturday’s card at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas with a makeshift main event between Kennedy Nzechukwu and Ion Cutelaba at the top of card. To his credit, Nzechukwu did his best to provide fireworks in the absence of the heavyweights with a second-round technical knockout — his second straight triumph in the promotion and his eighth career triumph via KO or TKO.