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UFC Fight Night: Minotauro vs. Nelson (also known as UFC Fight Night 39) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held on April 11, 2014 at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Official fight card
Fight card (UFC Fight Pass)
Heavyweight Minotauro Nogueira vs. Roy Nelson
Featherweight Clay Guida vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri
Welterweight John Howard vs. Ryan LaFlare
Lightweight Ramsey Nijem vs. Beneil Dariush
Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)
Heavyweight Jared Rosholt vs. Daniel Omielanczuk
Bantamweight Rani Yahya vs. Johnny Bedford
Middleweight Thales Leites vs. Trevor Smith
Middleweight Chris Camozzi vs. Andrew Craig
Featherweight Alan Omer vs. Jim Alers
Background
A heavyweight bout between Roy Nelson and Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira is scheduled to headline this event. The event will be the second that the organization has hosted in Abu Dhabi, after UFC 112 in 2010.
A flyweight bout between Alptekin Ozkilic and Dustin Ortiz was expected to take place on this card. However on April 3, the fight was cancelled due to injury to Ozkilic.
Apr 04 - Updated fight card & background