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UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 5, 2011 at LG Arena in Birmingham, England. The event will air on the same day, via tape delay, on Spike TV in the U.S. and Canada. The event will be the second that the UFC has hosted in Birmingham, the first being UFC 89 back in 2008 that also featured Chris Leben in the main event.
Official fight card
Main card
Middleweight bout: United States Chris Leben vs.United States Mark Muñoz
Bantamweight bout: England Brad Pickett vs. Brazil Renan Barão
Welterweight bout: Brazil Thiago Alves vs. Sweden Papy Abedi
Lightweight bout: England Terry Etim vs. United States Edward Faaloloto
Light Heavyweight bout: France Cyrille Diabaté vs. Australia Anthony Perosh
Preliminary card
Welterweight bout: England John Maguire vs. United States Justin Edwards
Featherweight bout: Japan Michihiro Omigawa vs. England Jason Young
Heavyweight bout: England Rob Broughton vs. England Philip De Fries
Welterweight bout: United States Chris Cope vs. England Che Mills
Bantamweight bout: Montenegro Chris Cariaso vs. England Vaughan Lee
Background
After several tenatively scheduled 2011 events at various locations around the United Kingdom did not materialize, including Glasgow, Liverpool, London as well as a planned return to Ireland, it was expected that the organization would not hold an event in the area during 2011.
The main event will be the first non-title five round fight in the history of the UFC.
Pascal Krauss was expected to face John Hathaway at this event. However, on August 30 Krauss pulled out of the bout citing a shoulder injury, and was replaced by Matt Brown.
Mark Scanlon was expected to face James Head at this event. However, Scanlon was pulled from the bout and replaced by promotional newcomer John Maguire Then, on September 28, Head himself pulled out of the fight due to an undisclosed injury and was replaced by Justin Edwards.
Pascal Krauss was expected to face John Hathaway at this event. However, on August 30 Krauss pulled out of the bout citing a shoulder injury, and was replaced by Matt Brown. Then on October 17 it was announced that Hathaway was forced to withdraw from the bout due to injury as well. As a result, Brown was pulled from the event and will face Seth Baczynski at UFC 139.
Philip De Fries was expected to face Oli Thompson at this event. However, on October 17 it was announced that Thompson was forced to withdraw from the bout due to injury. De Fries will now meet Rob Broughton at this event instead.
oct 17 - updated fightcard & poster
oct 31 - updated fightcard & background
nov 3 - updated fightcard - taylor vs njokuani replaced by diabate vs perosh