Author: MMA Fighting Newswire

The UFC Fight Night 33 fight card features a heavyweight tilt between Mark Hunt and Bigfoot Silva in the main event this Saturday night at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

The fight will air in the U.S. on Friday night.

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Shogun Rua will square off against James Te Huna in the co-main event.

Two fights have recently been removed from the card. Mitch Gagnon was supposed to fight Alex Caceres, but the fight was removed after Gagnon had visa issues, according to UFC officials. Also, a fight between Brian Melancon and Robert Whitaker was scrapped after Melancon decided to retire.

Check out the UFC Fight Night 33 fight card below.

Main card (Fox Sports 1 at 9 p.m. ET)
Mark Hunt vs. Antonio Silva
Shogun Rua vs. James Te Huna
Ryan Bader vs. Anthony Perosh
Pat Barry vs. Soa Palelei
Dylan Andrews vs. Clint Hester

Undercard (FOX Sports 2 at 7 p.m. ET)
Julie Kedzie vs. Bethe Correia
Takeya Mizugaki vs. Nam Phan
Nick Ring vs. Caio Magalhaes
Richie Vaculik vs. Justin Scoggins

Undercard (Watch live here at 6 p.m. ET)
Bruno Santos vs. Krzysztof Jotko
Ben Wall vs. Alex Garcia

Heavyweight prospect Jared Rosholt discusses getting the call to join the UFC the same day as the birth of his second child, his only loss, Hulk Hogan, his upcoming fight against Walt Harris on Saturday night, training with Brock Lesnar, and much more on Monday’s MMA Hour.

With a win over Raquel Pennington in the series finale of TUF 18, Jessica Rakoczy locks up her spot in the women’s final in Saturday’s TUF 18 Finale in Las Vegas.

Rakoczy defeated Pennington via unanimous decision on the series finale. Pennington will now face Roxanne Modafferi on the main card.

Here’s how the TUF 18 Finale fight card ended up:

Main card (FOX Sports 1 at 10 p.m. ET)
Gray Maynard vs. Nate Diaz
Julianna Pena vs. Jessica Rakoczy
Chris Holdsworth vs. David Grant
Jessamyn Duke vs. Peggy Morgan
Roxanne Modafferi vs. Raquel Pennington

Undercard (FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET)
Akira Corassini vs. Maximo Blanco
Rani Yahya vs. Tom Niinimaki
Jared Rosholt vs. Walt Harris
Sean Spencer vs. Drew Dober

Undercard (Facebook at 7:30 p.m. ET)
Ryan Benoit vs. Joshua Sampo

A middleweight clash between Yoel Romero and Derek Brunson is scheduled for UFC Fight Night 35 on Jan. 15 at The Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga.

UFC officials announced the fight Tuesday.

Brunson is 2-0 in his UFC career, including a submission (rear-naked choke) win over Brian Houston at UFC: Fight for the Troops 3 this past November.

Yoel Romero is also 2-0 in his UFC career, knocking out Ronny Markes in the third round in his last Octagon appearance at the Fight for the Troops 3 event.

A lightweight fight between Vinc Pichel (7-1) and Garett Whiteley (7-1) was also announced for the card. Luke Rockhold will face Constantinos Philippou in the main event.

Max Holloway will look to get back on track when he faces Will Chope as four fights were announced for UFC Fight 34 on Tuesday by UFC officials.

Featherweight Holloway (7-3) is 3-3 in his UFC career, losing his past two fights. He lost via unanimous decision to Conor McGregor at UFC Fight Night 26 this past August. Chope (19-5), who has won 14 straight fights, is making his UFC debut.

Dustin Kimura (10-1) will square off against Jon Delos Reyes in a bantamweight contest. Kimura is 1-1 in his UFC career, losing via submission at UFC 165 in his last Octagon appearance. Reyes, who is 7-2 overall, has won four straight fights and is making his UFC debut.

Mairbek Taisumov (19-4) and Tae Hyun Bang (16-7) will square off in a lightweight battle in their UFC debuts. Also, Royston Wee (2-0), who is from the UFC’s first fighter from Singapore, and David Galera (5-0) will battle in a bantamweight contest.

Jake Ellenberger will face Tarec Saffiedine in the main event at the Marina Bay Sands next Jan. 4 in Marina Bay, Singapore.

UFC Fight Night 34 fight card looks like this now:

Jake Ellenberger vs. Tarec Saffiedine
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Hacran Dias
Hyun Gyu Lim vs. Kiichi Kunimoto
Kyung-Ho Kang vs. Shunichi Shimizu
Katsunori Kikuno vs. Quinn Mulhern
Dustin Kimura vs. Jon Delos Reyes
Mairbek Taisumov vs. Tae Hyun Bang
Max Holloway vs. Will Chope
Royston Wee vs. Dave Galera

A welterweight fight between Pascal Krauss and Adam Khaliev is slated for UFC on FOX 10 on Jan. 25 in Chicago.

UFC officials confirmed a Chicago Sun-Times report Monday night.

Khaliev is 6-0 in his MMA career.

Krauss has lost two of his last three fights, including a first-round knockout loss to Hyun Gyu Lim at UFC 164.

Benson Henderson will square off against Josh Thomson in the main event.