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UFC Fight Night: Saffiedine vs. Lim (also known as UFC Fight Night 34) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held on January 4, 2014 at the Marina Bay Sands in Marina Bay, Singapore.
Official fight card
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Welterweight Tarec Saffiedine vs. Hyun Gyu Lim
Featherweight Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Sean Soriano
Welterweight Kiichi Kunimoto vs. Luiz Dutra
Bantamweight Kyung-Ho Kang vs. Shunichi Shimizu
Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)
Featherweight Max Holloway vs. Will Chope
Lightweight Katsunori Kikuno vs. Quinn Mulhern
Bantamweight Royston Wee vs. Dave Galera
Lightweight Mairbek Taisumov vs. Tae Hyun Bang
Bantamweight Dustin Kimura vs. Jon Delos Reyes
Bantamweight Leandro Issa vs. Russell Doane
Background
This event will be the first event the UFC will hold in Singapore. This will be the first Fight Night card that will not air on television in the United States market. Instead, the UFC will offer fans based in North America the option to watch it via a subscription-based digital network.
The event was expected to be headlined by a welterweight bout between Jake Ellenberger and Tarec Saffiedine. However in late November, Ellenberger pulled out of the bout citing an injury and was replaced by Hyun Gyu Lim. Lim's original opponent, Kiichi Kunimoto will now face Luis Dutra Jr.
Tatsuya Kawajiri was expected to face Hacran Dias at the event. However, Dias pulled out of the bout citing an injury. Kawajiri will now face promotional newcomer Sean Soriano.
UFC newcomer Will Chope was originally scheduled to face fellow newcomer Bekbulat Magomedov on this card. However, Magomedov was removed from the card and replaced by Max Holloway.
Jan 04 - Updated fight card & background