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UFC Set To Announce First Fight Card in Brazil Since 1998

The Ultimate Fighting Championship organization is pulling out the big guns to announce their return to Brazil. UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta and president Dana White will be travelling to Rio de Janeiro next week to make the announcement. Tatame.com broke …

The Ultimate Fighting Championship organization is pulling out the big guns to announce their return to Brazil. UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta and president Dana White will be travelling to Rio de Janeiro next week to make the announcement. Tatame.com broke the news of the upcoming announcement on Tuesday, December 7. White and Fertitta will hold […]

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UFC Set To Announce First Fight Card in Brazil Since 1998

UFC Ultimate Brazil Could Come Back In November 2011

In the early days of the UFC, the company would host a few “in the middle” events in between some of the chronologically ordered events of the UFC’s past.
There were two “Ultimate Ultimate” tournaments—one between UF…

In the early days of the UFC, the company would host a few “in the middle” events in between some of the chronologically ordered events of the UFC’s past.
There were two “Ultimate Ultimate” tournaments—one between UFCs 7 and 8 and anther between UFCs 11 and 12—along with an Ultimate Japan event in 1997 and an […]

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UFC Ultimate Brazil Could Come Back In November 2011

Brazil vs. U.S. in UFC Dates Back to the Beginning

Filed under: UFC?Though the focus is on the middleweight title fight between champion Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen — arguably the most outlandishly outspoken challenger in the promotion’s history — Saturday’s UFC 117 card might as well be called…

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?Though the focus is on the middleweight title fight between champion Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen — arguably the most outlandishly outspoken challenger in the promotion’s history — Saturday’s UFC 117 card might as well be called USA vs. Brazil.? For the first time in the promotion’s history, each fight on the main card will be between an American and a Brazilian.

It’s fitting, given that modern mixed martial arts owes much of its framework to the Gracie family, of Brazil, and the sport has become a worldwide phenomenon thanks in large part to the promotion and marketing machine that is the UFC, in America.

Is TUF 13 Hinging on Anderson Silva Beating Chael Sonnen?

("Why do they keep pitting me against Brazilians? It’s tougher to smash the faces of my fellow countrymen.")
TATAME is reporting that the UFC is planning to hold its second event in Brazil in 2011 and that the promotion could possibly do a Br…


("Why do they keep pitting me against Brazilians? It’s tougher to smash the faces of my fellow countrymen.")

TATAME is reporting that the UFC is planning to hold its second event in Brazil in 2011 and that the promotion could possibly do a Brazilian-only version of The Ultimate Fighter next year as well. 

Looking at the current UFC roster and taking into account the SPIKE TV series’ penchant for (except in a few cases) pitting the two coaches against each other at the end of each season, I’m guessing they are looking at Anderson Silva opposite either Vitor Belfort or Demian Maia as the coaches for the show.

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