UFC 142 Prelims Set To Air On FX Next Month

Tweet With the new broadcast deal in place between the Ultimate Fighting Championship and FOX, fans will no longer tune into Spike TV to catch preliminary card action, but will instead tune into FUEL TV. In the case of UFC 142 though, fans will have to tune into FX if they want to watch the […]

With the new broadcast deal in place between the Ultimate Fighting Championship and FOX, fans will no longer tune into Spike TV to catch preliminary card action, but will instead tune into FUEL TV. In the case of UFC 142 though, fans will have to tune into FX if they want to watch the prelim action live.

An official for FUEL TV confirmed with MMAFighting.com on Tuesday, that the FX network would carry the undercard matches for UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes on January 14 from the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Preliminary action for UFC 142 is as follows:

Preliminary card

Lightweight bout: Thiago Tavares vs. Sam Stout
Welterweight bout: Paulo Thiago vs. Mike Pyle
Light Heavyweight bout: Fabio Maldonado vs. Stanislav Nedkov
Heavyweight bout: Rob Broughton vs. Edinaldo Oliveira
Featherweight bout: Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio Carvalho