A flyweight bout between
Amir Albazi and
Tatsuro Taira was scheduled to headline this event. However, one week before the event, Albazi withdrew due to injury and was replaced by
Road to UFC Season 1 flyweight winner
Park Hyun-sung, who was originally scheduled to compete a week later against former
UFC Flyweight Championship challenger
Steve Erceg. A lightweight bout between
Esteban Ribovics and Elves Brener took place at the event. They were previously scheduled to face each other at
UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis in November 2023, but Ribovics withdrew due to an accident. A flyweight bout between former
LFA Flyweight Champion Felipe Bunes and André Lima was scheduled for this event. However, Lima withdrew from the fight due to an undisclosed injury and was replaced by Rafael Estevam. However, Finney withdrew from the fight due to an injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer
Yousri Belgaroui. In turn, the bout was scrapped and postponed to October 18 at
UFC Fight Night 262 as Belgaroui was unable to get a visa in time. They were originally reportedly scheduled to face each other in May 2019, at
UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Lee, but the matchup did not materialize as Zaleski dos Santos announced that he had not been contacted by the UFC about it. A featherweight bout between Austin Bashi and Francis Marshall was scheduled for this event. However, Marshall had to withdraw due to an injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer John Yannis. A lightweight bout between
Grant Dawson and
Joel Álvarez was reportedly scheduled for this event. However, for unknown reasons, the bout was not formally announced. • Tresean Gore weighed in at 189.5 pounds, three and a half pounds over the middleweight non-title fight limit. • Rafael Estevam weighed in at 130 pounds, four pounds over the flyweight non-title fight limit. Gore and Estevam's bouts proceeded at catchweight. Both fighters were fined 25 percent of their individual purses which went to their opponents
Rodolfo Vieira and Felipe Bunes, respectively. ==Results==