Marajó gained a new opponent for UFC 212 (Photo: Reproduction/Youtube)
The UFC 212 card, scheduled for June 3, in Rio de Janeiro, suffered a loss. The bantamweight Felipe Sertanejo was removed from the duel against Iuri Marajó, but the reasons that led the São Paulo native to leave the rematch against his compatriot were not officially clarified. Without Sertanejo, the organization selected the newcomer brian kelleher to face Marajó.
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At 30 years old, Kelleher is on a streak of six wins, and has a record of 16 wins and seven losses. The American had two fights in Bellator, but lost in both.
Number 13 in the division's ranking, Marajó has 11 fights among bantamweights, with seven wins, three losses and one fight without result. He comes from two consecutive victories, surpassing Brad pickett and Luka Sanders by submission. In both victories, he got Performance of the Night bonuses, in addition to Fight of the Night in his last defeat, to Jimmie rivera.
Diego Lima, Sertanejo's coach and leader of the Chute Boxe academy, declared, in an interview with the website 'Combate.com', what were the reasons that removed his pupil from the event.
“Actually, this fight would be very good for Felipe. We really wanted this fight to happen. They've fought before and a new fight would be great. But, the truth is that this fight was announced without anything being finalized (…) It remained that the fight would happen, it wouldn't happen, time passed, it was 3 weeks before the fight and there would be no more time to lose weight or anything like that. the fighter needs to prepare. It would be great if this fight happened, it could be in June, July or August. Felipe is training normally (…) But, if it happened, it would be a very good fight for us”, said the coach.
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