After a series of casualties due to injuries, UFC 133 lands this Saturday (6), in Philadelphia. The American city will host the show whose main attraction will be a fight between the former champions of the light heavyweight division: Tito Ortiz, called up in a hurry to replace the injured Phil Davis, and Rashad evans. According to Dana White, president of the organization, if Evans wins, he will be the next challenger for the belt in the 93 kg category.
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Winner of the second edition of The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC's reality show, Rashad has not fought since the first half of last year, when he won Quinton Rampage Jackson at UFC 114. Investing in his wrestling and powerful right hand, Evans promises to resume the race for the belt he lost in 2009 to Lyoto Machida. Case confirm the favoritism of betting exchanges, he will earn the right to challenge Jon Jones, current champion.
In its turn, Tito Ortiz He wants to take advantage of the good moment in his career to score his second consecutive triumph. After remaining without a victory for five years, the “Bad Boy from Huntington Beach” surprised the world by finishing the favorite Ryan bader at UFC 132, held in July. Now, he will have the chance to get much closer to the light heavyweight belt by rediscovering Rashad evans, with whom he had a clash in 2007, which ended in a draw.
Brazilians at the show
UFC 133 features three Brazilians in action on the fight program: In the second most anticipated fight of the night, Vitor belfort returns to the most famous octagon in the world to face Yoshihiro akiyama and promises to knock out the Japanese fighter to resume the race for the middleweight belt.
“I'm going to knock out (Akiyama). So don’t leave your couch and get ready,” said a confident Belfort.
On the preliminary card, the miner Rafael “Sapo” Natal tries his first victory in the organization against the North American Paul Bradley. The Brazilian Rani Yaya will have ahead Chad Mendes, where the winner of the duel could be the new challenger for the featherweight belt.
Check out the full show card below, which will be broadcast on the Combate channel from 21pm.
Main Card
Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Vitor belfort
Brian Ebersole vs. Dennis Hallman
Constantine Philippou vs. Jorge Rivera
Preliminary Card
Alexander Gustafson vs. Matt Hamill
Chad Mendes vs. Rani Yaya
Ivan Menjivar vs. Nick Pace
John hendricks vs. Mike Pierce
Mike Brown vs. Nam Phan
Paul Bradley vs. Rafael “Sapo” Natal
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