In a 5-round featherweight bout in the main event, Diego Lopes and Jean Silva meet Saturday at Noche UFC -- also known as UFC Fight Night 259.

Jean Silva and Diego Lopes had a tense staredown when the pair unexpectedly ran into each other just days before they headline Noche UFC.

The Brazilian fighter is preparing to main event Noche UFC 3, off the back of a devastating title defeat at the hands of Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 314. Volkanovski beat him over five rounds to take home the vacant UFC Featherweight championship and end Diego Lopes’s title hopes on his first time challenging for the belt.

The burgeoning Fighting Nerds star will look to climb several more rungs on the 145-pound ladder when he confronts Diego Lopes in the UFC Fight Night 259 headliner on Saturday at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio.

In the world of combat sports, all eyes are on tonight's Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford boxing super fight. That being said, MMA fans received a delightful appetizer for the boxing card in the form of Noche UFC,