After considering middleweight, UFC’s Luiz Cane reinvented as 205-pound contender

Despite suffering back-to-back losses to Cyrille Diabate and Antonio
Rogerio Nogueira, Brazilian slugger Luiz Cane was
presented with a brand-new UFC contract in the summer of 2010.

When he walked to the cage at this past month’s UFC 128 event, he kne…

Despite suffering back-to-back losses to Cyrille Diabate and Antonio
Rogerio Nogueira, Brazilian slugger Luiz Cane was
presented with a brand-new UFC contract in the summer of 2010.

When he walked to the cage at this past month’s UFC 128 event, he knew
it meant little if he didn’t get back into the win column.

“About two weeks after my loss to Diabate, the UFC renewed my contract,
but I knew that another loss would cost me my job,” Cane told
MMAjunkie.com.