Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Venue: HSBC Arena
PPV Start: 10pm est

MAIN CARD

Main Event: Light Heavyweight Bout
-Anderson Silva vs. Stephan Bonnar

Light Heavyweight Bout:
-Fabio Maldonado vs. Glover Teixeira

Heavyweight Bout:
-Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Dave Herman

Welterweight Bout:
-Jon Fitch vs. Erick Silva

Light Heavyweight Bout:
-Phil Davis vs. Wagner Prado

Welterweight Bout:
-Demian Maia vs. Rick Story


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Featherweight Bout:
-Rony Mariano Bezerra vs. Sam Sicilia

Featherweight Bout:
-Diego Brandao vs. Joey Gambino

Lightweight Bout:
-Gleison Tibau vs. Francisco Trinaldo

Middleweight Bout:
-Chris Camozzi vs. Luiz Cane


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Welterweight Bout:
-Sergio Moraes vs. Renee Forte

Lightweight Bout:
-Reza Madadi vs. Cristiano Marcello

Card updated.


Koch injured. Edgar to fight instead!

Aldo and Rampage hurt.


Urijah Faber is pushing for either him or Chad Mendes to face Edgar at this event. Would watch either of those.

Fight card updated.

Silva/Bonnar added as new main event, Big Nog/Herman added, Maldonado steps in for Rampage.

Maia/Story

This weekend.


Gabriel Gonzaga's opponent Geronimo Dos Santos pulled out of the fight and instead of finding new opponent, the fight has been scrapped completely. Also, the reasons for the withdrawl have not been disclosed either.

i didnt get to see any of the fights but from the recaps i've read fitch put on a hell of a show.

The Fitch fight was actually entertaining but I give most of the credit to Erick Silva who forced Fitch to fight. Fitch was definitely trying to force his top heavy game on Silva but Silva kept finding a way to scramble out. It was definitely the best fight of the night.

As for the main event, I felt that it was pretty anti-climatic. Anderson did some impressive things like put himself against the cage as if to say to Bonnar he wasn't afraid of his gameplan. He sat there and toyed with him and then when he felt like ending it, he did. It was easy money for Silva like everyone expected.

Phil Davis had a sick anaconda choke and Big Nog showed Dave Herman that jiu-jitsu is a real deal martial art.

big nog looked like he was 30lbs over weight and about 55 years old at the weigh ins. he physically looked bad

The Nogueira's are 36 years old and have looked like senior citizens for the last 10 years.

hahahaha i know but he looked worse than their normal status of bad

Father time is catching up with him. In the Pride days he was notorious for absorbing an inhumanly amount of punishment (look at the Fedor and Crocop fights) so at 36, he's well beyond the average person his age in terms of MMA years. Anderson is a year older than him and fights like he's 10 years younger.

Also, its been 10 months since his arm was snapped. I know he couldn't train for like 5-6 months. If your body is used to working out, I can't imagine how much of a shit your metabolism takes when you have to go from 100 to 0 immediately.

true, true

boner and herman piss hot. boner for roids and herman thc.

For Bonnar it doesn't really matter. I haven't heard if the UFC is going to fine him or not but even so he got such a good chunk of change for that fight (Main eventers always get PPV %) that even if he loses 20%, he'll still have made a good amount of money to ride off into the sunset with.

Herman on the otherhand, that's the deathblow. I'm sure he's getting released from the UFC with this one. By the time I type this, it might have already happened.