UFC 134 preview: Brazilians Silva, Rua and Nogueira return home as rock stars

There’s perhaps no place that could better illustrate how far the sport
of mixed martial arts has come since its dark days than Brazil,
otherwise known as the cradle of MMA.

Thirteen years after the UFC touched down without much fanfare in
mega-city S…

There’s perhaps no place that could better illustrate how far the sport
of mixed martial arts has come since its dark days than Brazil,
otherwise known as the cradle of MMA.

Thirteen years after the UFC touched down without much fanfare in
mega-city Sao Paulo, the promotion has returned to a country where
fighting stops daily life.

In our official UFC 134 preview, MMAjunkie.com’s Steven Marrocco talks about the impact of Saturday’s show, as well as intriguing matchups such as middleweight champ Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami, Forrest Griffin vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Brendan Schaub.