Retorno marcado! UFC volta ao Brasil com
card no dia 7 de maio no Rio de Janeiro https://t.co/C0GwknRJ8D pic.twitter.com/57dItz3k44— Combate (@canalCombate)
December 16, 2021
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your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the
ESPN app. After over two years away, the Ultimate Fighting Championship will finally be
staging an event in Brazil. On March 14, 2020, the UFC held its final event before shuttering
for a few months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show,
UFC Fight Night 170, went down in Brasilia, Brazil, and no fans
were allowed in the building. Since that fight card headlined by
future champ Charles Oliveira and former UFC fighter Kevin Lee, the
UFC has held fights in either the United States or in Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates. Recent reports have stated that the UFC will
head to England on March 19, but UFC head Dana White has said that
it will depend on the status of COVID. As first reported by
Combate on Thursday, and later confirmed to Sherdog by sources
close to the situation, the UFC will be heading to Brazil in
May.
The fight card that is expected to be staged inside the Jeunesse
Arena in Rio de Janeiro does not currently have a designation of a
Fight Night or a numbered show, but it is believed that UFC 274
will be its official title. This will be the 11th time that Rio de
Janeiro has hosted a UFC event, with the last UFC 237 in 2019. In
the main event of UFC 237, Jessica Andrade knocked Rose Namajunas
out to claim the strawweight belt.
No matches have been announced or rumored for the newly reported
show, but some expect that Brazilian champs Charles Oliveira and
Glover Teixeira, as well as featherweight queen Amanda Nunes, may
play a role in the promotion’s first event in the Federative
Republic of Brazil since before the pandemic.
