UFC 134 officially is a heavily anticipated event.
Officials recently announced that the event, which is the UFC's first in Brazil in 13 years, sold out in just 74 minutes.
The event takes place Aug. 27 at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro. UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and top contender Yushin Okami headline the pay-per-view show.
Tickets went on sale to the general public on Saturday. A pre-sale period for arena-VIP customers took place Thursday.
As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported following a media event in Rio this past week, the event is expected to accommodate nearly 17,000 fans. UFC president Dana White expects it to be the first of multiple shows, including pay-per-view events and UFC Fight Night shows, to take place throughout the country in the next year.
To date the UFC has hosted just one show in Brazil: "UFC Ultimate Brazil" (UFC 17.5) in October 1998. That show took place in Sao Paulo.
The latest UFC 134 card now includes:
MAIN CARD
Champ Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami (for middleweight title)
Forrest Griffin vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
Edson Barboza vs. Ross Pearson
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Brendan Schaub
Luiz Cane vs. Stanislav Nedkov
PRELIMINARY CARD
Spencer Fisher vs. Thiago Tavares
David Mitchell vs. Paulo Thiago
Erick Silva vs. Mike Swick
Yves Jabouin vs. Ian Loveland
Yuri Alcantara vs. Antonio Carvalho
Alexandre "Cacareco" Ferreira vs. Rousimar Palhares*
Source: UFC 134 in Brazil sells out in 74 minutes
incredible
