Napão will have the chance to recover from the defeat suffered by Travis Browne
Brazilian heavyweight Gabriel Napao was announced by the UFC as Shane Del Rosario's replacement in the fight against fellow American Dave Herman, scheduled for UFC 162. The fight will be part of the event's preliminary card. The organization did not inform the type of injury suffered by Del Rosario, nor the fighter's recovery time.
Napão will have approximately five weeks to prepare for the fight that could bring him back to victory. After being cut from the UFC and considering retiring, the Brazilian was rehired and debuted by easily submitting his compatriot Ednaldo Lula. He achieved his second victory with a guillotine choke over Ben Rothwell, but saw his streak interrupted by a technical knockout defeat to Travis Browne, in a fight in which Napão complained a lot about being the victim of illegal elbows from the Hawaiian.
Herman will have a second chance to prove that jiu-jitsu really is useless. On his first attempt, he ended up succumbing to a headlock. Rodrigo Minotauro, at UFC Rio 3, when he was even caught in an anti-doping test for using marijuana. Now the American's mission will be against a former world champion and fourth degree black belt in the gentle art.
UFC 162 takes place on July 6, in Las Vegas, as part of the American independence holiday celebrations. The event will be led by a middleweight belt dispute between the champion Anderson Silva and the challenger Chris Weidman.
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