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UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig

2023 mixed martial event in Nevada, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ121877982 ↗
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UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig (also known as UFC Fight Night 232, UFC on ESPN+ 90 and UFC Vegas 82) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on November 18, 2023, at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.

Background

A middleweight bout between former LFA Middleweight Champion Brendan Allen and Paul Craig headlined the event.

A featherweight bout between Jeka Saragih and Jesse Butler was scheduled for this event. However, Butler withdrew due to injury and was briefly replaced by Charlie Campbell. The promotion then announced that Lucas Alexander would step in and face Saragih instead. At the weigh-ins, Alexander weighed in at 148 pounds, two pounds over the featherweight non-title fight limit. The bout proceeded at catchweight with Alexander being fined 20% of his purse which went to Saragih.

A middleweight bout between promotional newcomer César Almeida and Christian Leroy Duncan

was scheduled for the event. However, Almeida was pulled out from the event for medical reasons.

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“UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Craig” enters the record as 2023 mixed martial event in Nevada, US. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fight, Night and Allen can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q121877982. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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