UFC 146 comes to you live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, May 26, 2011, and features the very first all-heavyweight card in UFC history.
Headlining the event is the first title defense of 14-1 Brazilian heavyweight phenom, newly-crowned UFC heavyweight champion and the consensus No. 1 heavyweight in all of MMA, Junior “Cigano” Dos Santos.
Dos Santos took the belt in just 69 seconds over former champion Cain Velasquez at UFC on Fox 1 and will look to make a successful first defense against consensus No. 1 challenger and former Strikeforce champion, K-1 heavyweight champion and PRIDE FC star “The Demolition Man” Alistair Overeem, who made more that a lasting mark by defeating and retiring former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar.
In the co-headliner of the action-packed and athletically-stacked Memorial Day Weekend event, the now 9-1 Velasquez looks for either his rematch with Dos Santos or his dream fight with Overeem, but before either can happen, the 29-year-old Velasquez faces a tough title eliminator opposite a former UFC heavyweight champion and arguably one of the heavyweight division’s best BJJ practitioners in Frank Mir.
Rounding out the card, Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva makes his UFC debut against “Big Country” Roy Nelson, while Mark Hunt looks up in a tilt against Stefan Struve and Shane Del Rosario defends his 11-0 record against Gabriel “Napao” Gonzaga.
Now the million-dollar question is, “Who will prevail on Memorial Day weekend?”