Alexandre Pulga
UFC Rio, an event scheduled to take place on August 27th in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, is close to having another Brazilian athlete on the fight program. Light weight Alexandre Pulga should be announced as the organization's new recruit in the coming days and become the tenth Brazilian fighter on the show. The information was revealed to SUPER FIGHTS by Alexandre's coach, Toco Albuquerque, who confirmed that only details were missing for the announcement of his pupil at the event.
“(Alexandre) Pulga is practically closed at UFC Rio, with only details missing,” said Toco, who revealed that he still doesn’t have an opponent for Alexandre’s UFC debut. “We still don’t have an opponent, but everything indicates that it will be a foreigner”, he added.
In his professional career, Pulga, who is a black belt in jiu-jitsu, is undefeated with nine victories, but has not fought since December 2009, due to an injury, but according to the coach his athlete is fully recovered and ready to return to the sport. fighting. “The injury is completely healed and he has been training at a high level. He’s ready”, concluded the commander of the Nova Geração team, from Rio de Janeiro.
UFC 134, also called UFC Rio, will take place at the HSBC Arena, in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, and features as its main attraction the duel between Anderson Silva e Yushin Okami, a fight valid for the organization's middleweight belt.
Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami (fight valid for the middleweight belt);
Forrest griffin vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua;
Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira vs. Brendan Schaub;
Edson Barboza vs. Ross Pearson;
Luiz “Banha” Cane vs. Stanislav Nedkov;
Tom Lawlor vs. Opponent not yet defined;
Spencer Fisher vs. Thiago tavares;
Alexandre “Cacareco” Ferreira vs. Rousimar Palhares;
David Mitchell vs. Paulo thiago;
Alexandre “Pulga” vs. Opponent not yet defined.
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