UFC arrives in São Paulo on November 19th. (Photo: Disclosure)
A few days after the UFC announced that Brazil will host an event on November 19th, São Paulo was confirmed as the chosen city. Although the contract has not yet been signed, the date is reserved for the franchise, and the attraction will take place at the Ibirapuera Gymnasium. The information is from the Combate.com website.
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This will be only the third – and last – Ultimate event on Brazilian soil in 2016 – Curitiba, in May, and Brasilia, in September, were the other host cities. Since 2012, this will be the year with the lowest number of shows in Brazil, only three in total. In 2013 and 2014, for example, the country hosted no less than 14 events (seven each year). Last year, the UFC arrived on Brazilian soil on five occasions, two more than in 2016. The reduced number of events is in line with the policy adopted by Giovani Decker, general director of the UFC in Brazil, which aims for less quantity and more quality.
It is worth mentioning that this is the fifth time that São Paulo has hosted a UFC card. Before, Vitor belfort e Wanderlei Silva they dueled at the Canindé gymnasium in 1998. Belfort also starred in two more events in the São Paulo metropolis. In 2013, he knocked out the current champion Michael Bisping, and in 2015 it was the turn of Dan Henderson fall before the “Phenomenon”. The other edition was in 2014, led by Fabio Maldonado e Stipe Miocic, in an event that revealed the winners of TUF Brasil 3 (Warlley alves and Antônio Carlos “Shoe Face").
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