On Saturday, August 27 the UFC will return to Brazil for the first time since October 16, 1998. That event, “Ultimate Brazil” was headlined by a middleweight title bout between Frank Shamrock and John Lober, but it is perhaps best remembered for the 44 second beating Vitor Belfort gave to Wanderlei Silva.
The promotion will bring UFC 134 to the HSBC Arena in Rio next Saturday and the event, like the first UFC Brazil event, will be headlined by a middleweight title fight as Anderson Silva defends his title against Yushin Okami. The co-main event will feature Mauricio “Shogun” Rua facing Forrest Griffin. In all, 14 Brazilian fighters will be competing on the 12 fight card. Only one contest will be without a Brazilian fighter.
Light Heavyweight’s Luiz Cane and Stanislav Nedkov will face off on the main card at UFC 134. Cane is coming off of a UFC career saving TKO win over Eliot Marshall at UFC 128 while Nedkov will be making his UFC debut on Saturday.
Cane has an overall record of 11-3-0-1 coming into the fight and was on a two-fight losing streak before defeating Marshall. Nedkov is a perfect 11-0, but again, all those wins came outside the UFC.