UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on December 14, 2019 at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.

[4] A UFC Featherweight Championship bout between the current champion Max Holloway and Alexander Volkanovski took place as the co-main event.

[6] The pairing previously met in November 2013 at UFC: Fight for the Troops 3, with Nunes winning the encounter via TKO in the first round.

Despite having over two months before the event, promotion officials elected to remove Lawler from the card entirely instead of having him face a replacement.

She was fined 30% of her fight purse, which went to her opponent Viviane Araújo and the bout proceeded at a catchweight.