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Though the focus is on the middleweight title fight between champion Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen — arguably the most outlandishly outspoken challenger in the promotion’s history — Saturday’s UFC 117 card might as well be called USA vs. Brazil.? For the first time in the promotion’s history, each fight on the main card will be between an American and a Brazilian.
It’s fitting, given that modern mixed martial arts owes much of its framework to the Gracie family, of Brazil, and the sport has become a worldwide phenomenon thanks in large part to the promotion and marketing machine that is the UFC, in America.