A couple “The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil” castmates will reportedly meet when the Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to the South American country this October.
After competing as middleweights on the reality series, Sergio ‘Serginho’ Maraes (6-2) of Team Vitor, and Renee Forte (7-1) of Team Wanderlei, will reportedly meet at UFC 153 according to Tatame.com.
TUF Brazil finalist Sergio Moraes will return to the UFC octagon as a welterweight, as he meets fellow TUF alum Renee Forte at UFC 153, event scheduled to October 13th in Rio de Janeiro. Sources close to the situation confirmed the bout to TATAME.
Moraes and Forte competed on TUF Brazil at the middleweight division. Sergio submitted Thiago Rela and Delson Heleno in the show, while Renee defeater Fabio Bolinho by decision. Both fighters were eliminated from the competition by Daniel Sarafian.
UFC 153 is expected to occur on October 13, 2012 at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Moraes debuted in the Octagon last month at UFC 147 in the middleweight final versus Cezar Ferreira. After three rounds of standup action, Moraes would come out on the losing end suffering a unanimous decision loss to Ferreira. The defeat puts Moraes record at 1-2 ovre his last three fights.
Forte moves back to welterweight for this fight and will look to string together back-to-back wins. His last match was in May of last year at an Amazon Fight 8 event in Brazil. There he won a third round TKO finish of his opponent. He currently holds two (T)KO finishes, two submissions wins, and three victories by decision.