Willing to have another chance to fight for the UFC middleweight belt, Vitor belfort announced on his official website the date and opponent of his return to the octagon. The “Phenomenon”, as he is known, faces the former Strkeforce champion Cung le at UFC 139, an event that takes place on November 19, in San Jose, in the United States.
“The UFC champion versus the kickboxing champion,” read the headline on Belfort’s website.
Vitor is coming off an important victory over Japanese Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 133. In turn, Cung Lee, who is a former Strikeforce champion, will make his UFC debut. The American fighter has a record of seven wins and just one loss, all of them fighting for Strikeforce.
In addition to Belfort, two other Brazilians are scheduled for UFC 139. Lightweights Gleison Tibau and Rafael dos Anjos they do the tupiniquim duel of the show.
Check out the full event card below:
Vitor belfort vs. Cung le
Brian Bowles vs. Urijah faber
Martin Kampmann vs. Rick Story
Ryan bader vs. Jason Brilz
Rafael dos Anjos vs. Gleison tibau
Stephan bonnar vs. Kyle Kingsbury
Tom Lawlor vs. Chris Weidman
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This Le is very fast and very tough, the V Belfort will take a lot of work, and there is a huge risk ahead.
I've watched all of Cung Le's fights, he's spectacular with his legs, but Vitor is much better with his hands, I don't know, I think
the victor wins but it's a difficult fight to predict
Lee has a great ability to take down, but then he doesn't go up because he hates fighting on the ground, but this counts as points for the judges, it's difficult to predict this fight, we only know for sure that it will only be standing up. . Pure exchange guys...
Cung Le is a representative of sanshou kung fu and not kickboxing... sanshou uses takedowns to knock out or undermine the opponent... it's a style of kung fu that I train and I can say... it's very dangerous... I'm going there cung le!!!