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Mark your calendars for these UFC shows for the second-half of 2019.

The UFC is loading up the second-half of 2019 with at least three events per month from July until December.

During Saturday’s UFC 237 broadcast, the promotion confirmed dates (and some locations and venues) for 22 shows. They’ll have run 20 cards through the end of June, meaning the final tally should be 42 events for 2019, the most they’ve had since 46 in 2014.

Some highlights include a July 20th ESPN show in San Antonio, TX, a return to Mexico City, Mexico on September 21st in ESPN+, and a rare Friday evening card televised by ESPN 2 on October 18th.

Due to the college football playoffs, there is not going to be a New Year’s Eve pay-per-view this year, so December 21st if the UFC’s finale.

The full third- and fourth-quarter UFC lineup is as follows:

July 6 — UFC 239 — T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada

July 13 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California

July 20 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN — AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas

July 27 — UFC 240 — TBD (potentially in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

Aug. 3 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN — TBD

Aug. 10 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — Montevideo, Uruguay

Aug. 17 — UFC 241 — Honda Center in Anaheim, California

Aug. 31 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — TBD

Sept. 7 — UFC 242 — Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Sept. 14 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — TBD

Sept. 21 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico

Sept. 28 — UFC Fight Night in ESPN+ — TBD

Oct. 5 — UFC 243 — TBD

Oct. 12 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — TBD

(Fri) Oct. 18 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN2 — TBD

Oct. 26 — UFC Fight Night ESPN+ — TBD

Nov. 2 — UFC 244 — TBD

Nov. 16 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — Sao Paulo, Brazil

Nov. 23 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — TBD

Dec. 7 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN — TBD

Dec. 14 — UFC 245 — TBD

Dec. 21 — UFC Fight Night on ESPN+ — TBD

Former champions Rose Namajunas and Anderson Silva were finished in violent fashion last Sat. night (May 11, 2019) in their respective losses at the UFC 237 pay-per-view (PPV) event, held in the historic Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Get complete results and play-by-play here.

Namajunas was picked up and slammed on her head by new strawweight champion Jessica Andrade (watch the replay here), while Silva was stopped by technical knockout in what appeared to be a nasty leg injury (more on that here).

As a result, Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA) wants both fighters on the bench for the next six months, according to MMA Fighting, unless cleared in advance by an approved physician. Joining them in the six-month club are Laureano Staropoli and Bethe Correia.

The former injured his nose in a unanimous decision win over Thiago Alves, while the latter may have damaged her elbow in a submission loss to Irene Aldana. Elsewhere on the card, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Sergio Moraes were handed 60-day suspensions for their respective knockout losses to Ryan Spann and Warlley Alves.

For much more on UFC 237 including recaps, video highlights, reactions, and so much more, check out our comprehensive “Namajunas vs. Andrade” news archive right here.

Get your seven-day FREE trial of ESPN+ right here for the next “Fight Night” event that will go a long way in sorting through some of the clutter in the Top 5 of the welterweight division. Will Rafael dos Anjos stay in the 170-pound title hunt, or will Kevin Lee send him back to lightweight?

Event: UFC on ESPN+ 10 “Dos Anjos vs. Lee”
Date: Sat., May 18, 2019
Location: Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York
Broadcast: ESPN+

UFC on ESPN+ 10 Main Event:

170 lbs.: Rafael dos Anjos vs. Kevin Lee

UFC on ESPN+ 10 Main Card (8 p.m. ET):

170 lbs.: Vicente Luque vs. Neil Magny
135 lbs.: Sijara Eubanks vs. Aspen Ladd
185 lbs.: Ian Heinisch vs. Antonio Carlos Junior
155 lbs.: Nik Lentz vs. Charles Oliveira
155 lbs.: Austin Hubbard vs. Davi Ramos

UFC on ESPN+ 10 Preliminary Card (5 p.m. ET):

145 lbs.: Megan Anderson vs. Felicia Spencer
145 lbs.: Grant Dawson vs. Mike Trizano
155 lbs.: Desmond Green vs. Charles Jourdain
205 lbs.: Patrick Cummins vs. Ed Herman
170 lbs.: Michel Pereira vs. Danny Roberts
185 lbs.: Zak Cummings vs. Trevin Giles
145 lbs.: Julio Arce vs. Julian Erosa

*Fight card, bout order and the amount of matches subject to change.

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Another weekend of fisticuffs has come and gone as UFC 237 blew the roof Jeunesse Arena last Sat. night (May 11, 2019) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Plenty of fighters were left licking their wounds, including B.J. Penn, who suffered his seventh straight defeat, this time at the hands of Clay Guida. And Rose Namamjunas, who was knocked out thanks to a vicious slam by Jessica Andrade, losing her women’s Strawweight title in the process.

But which fighter is suffering from the worst post-fight hangover, now 48 hours removed from the show?

Anderson Silva.

Coming into his bout against Jared Cannonier, “The Spider” was looking to get back into the win column after coming up short in his previous contest against Israel Adesanya. The 44-year-old legend also looked to establish he has plenty left to offer the fight game, and perhaps prove that UFC extending his contract was worth the promotion’s while.

Unfortunately for one of the all-time greats, he didn’t get the chance to show it because the fight ended on a thunderous kick delivered by Cannonier right on Silva’s knee in the first round, sending him crumbling down to the mat in visible pain and agony.

And I will admit, I am still among the few who say Chris Weidman’s second win over “The Spider” was a fluke injury, but this was not that. This was a blow delivered by an opponent that caused the unfortunate damage and earned him the win.

Come at me, bro.

As for what’s next for the former pound-for-pound great, the consensus is that he should start collecting his 401K. And it’s hard to argue at this point for many reasons. For one, at age 44 there really isn’t much for Silva to prove or accomplish inside the Octagon. He’s been around the block a few times and has done things inside the cage that most can only dream of. His legacy is cemented, despite his last five tumultuous years.

Plus, the contenders are only getting younger, faster and stronger, and though his body still looks like that of a 25-year-old, his injury this weekend proved that it has a lot of miles on it that are now visible to the naked eye.

”Until the limit, pain is your friend. It shows you’re not dead yet,” Silva wrote on Instagram (via MMA Fighting). “They say that great symbols become great targets. Maybe. But the most important thing is not to victimize yourself. If you fall, get up. If it’s broken, fix it. No giving up or thinking that you can’t because you lost one battle.

”The saying is, I’m going until the end and the more they pressure me, the more I’ll want to to go until the end. There’s nothing more wild than feeling sorry for yourself. An old lion, surrounded by hungry hyenas, crazy to eat him, and he stills fights until death without ever giving up or feeling sorry for himself. And it won’t be different with me. Strength and honor.”

While one must respect and admire the ambition and desire a fighter has to want to keep going, there has to come a time when he or she has to take a look deep down inside and really determine whether his or her body can go on.

Then again, he recently went toe-to-toe with the current interim division champion for 15 minutes, so you can’t blame him if he feels he still has what it takes to keep going.

Silva is definitely in an odd place at the moment, and it will likely be a while before he lets the public know what the future holds for him. But if I were a betting man, I would put coin on him at least finishing out his UFC contract.

And maybe even extending.