UFC 197: Live Results, Play-by-Play and Fight Card Highlights

UFC 198 is a go for Saturday, May 14. 
The event, hosted by the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil, is headlined by a heavyweight title match between Fabricio Werdum and Stipe Miocic. The champion, Werdum, has won six straight, most recently def…

UFC 198 is a go for Saturday, May 14. 

The event, hosted by the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil, is headlined by a heavyweight title match between Fabricio Werdum and Stipe Miocic. The champion, Werdum, has won six straight, most recently defeating Cain Velasquez. The challenger, Miocic, is coming off a knockout win over Andrei Arlovski.

The co-main event of the evening pits Brazilian middleweights Vitor Belfort and Ronaldo Souza against one another. Belfort enters on the heels of a knockout win over Dan Henderson, while Souza is looking to rebound from a razor-thin decision loss to Yoel Romero.

The full UFC 198 card is as follows:

 

UFC 198 Main Card (10 p.m. ET)

  • Fabricio Werdum vs. Stipe Miocic
  • Ronaldo Souza vs. Vitor Belfort
  • Cris Justino vs. Leslie Smith
  • Mauricio Rua vs. Corey Anderson
  • Warlley Alves vs. Bryan Barberena

 

Prelims on Fox Sports 1 (8 p.m. ET)

  • Demian Maia vs. Matt Brown
  • Thiago Santos vs. Nate Marquardt
  • Francisco Trinaldo vs. Yancy Medeiros
  • John Lineker vs. Rob Font

 

Prelims on UFC Fight Pass (6:30 p.m. ET)

  • Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Patrick Cummins
  • Sergio Moraes vs. Luan Chagas 
  • Renato Moicano vs. Zubaira Tukhugov

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