UFC announces press conference full of Brazilians to promote its upcoming events

UFC will repeat the promotional press conference held last year. Photo: Brandon Magnus/UFC

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In November last year, the UFC held the press conference “The Time is Now” (“The time is now”, in free translation), to promote its main future events. The idea seems to have pleased the organization, which announced the “Welcome to the Show” event for February 28th, in Los Angeles (USA), with the in order to highlight the main attractions already announced for 2015 in the Octagon.

The press conference will take place hours before UFC 184, at The Event Deck, an event space located about 30 minutes from Staples Center, the gym that hosts the fight night headlined by Ronda Rousey e Zingano cat. The promotional event will feature the presence of 20 fighters, 25% of which are Brazilian – Lyoto Machida, Vitor belfort, Demian Maia, Rafael dos Anjos e Renan Barao.

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Check out the list of fighters who will be present at the “Welcome to the Show” press conference below:

- Anthony Pettis,  lightweight champion (UFC 185);

- Rafael dos Anjos,  lightweight belt challenger (UFC 185);

- Carla esparza,  strawweight champion (UFC 185);

- Joanna Jedrzejczyk, strawweight belt challenger (UFC 185);

- Demian Maia, seventh place in the welterweight rankings (UFC Fight Night Rio);

– Ryan LaFlare, 15th placed in the welterweight rankings (UFC Fight Night Rio);

- Chad Mendes, second in the featherweight rankings (UFC Fight Night 63);

– Ricardo Lamas, fourth in the featherweight rankings (UFC Fight Night 63);

- Lyoto Machida, third place in the middleweight rankings (UFC on FOX 15);

- Luke Rockhold, fifth place in the middleweight rankings (UFC on FOX 15);

- TJ Dillashaw, bantamweight champion (UFC 186);

- Renan Barao, former champion and challenger for the bantamweight belt (UFC 186);

- Demetrious Johnson, flyweight champion (UFC 186);

– Kyoji Horiguchi, challenger for the flyweight belt (UFC 186);

- Frankie Edgar, ranked first in the featherweight rankings (UFC Fight Night 66);

- Urijah faber, third place in the bantamweight rankings (UFC Fight Night 66);

- Jon Jones, light heavyweight champion (UFC 187);

- Anthony Johnson, light heavyweight title challenger (UFC 187);

- Chris Weidman, middleweight champion (UFC 187);

- Vitor belfort, middleweight title challenger (UFC 187).