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The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Finale: Miocic vs Maldonado (also known as UFC Fight Night: Miocic vs. Maldonado) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It is expected to take place on May 31, 2014 in Brazil at Ginásio do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil.
Official fight card
Fight card (UFC Fight Pass)
Heavyweight Stipe Miocic vs. Fabio Maldonado
Heavyweight Vitor Miranda vs. Antonio Carlos Junior The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Middleweight final
Middleweight Márcio Alexandre Junior vs. Warlley Alves The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Heavyweight final
Welterweight Demian Maia vs. Alexander Yakovlev
Featherweight Rony Jason vs. Robbie Peralta
Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)
Lightweight Rodrigo Damm vs. Rashid Magomedov
Lightweight Elias Silverio vs. Ernest Chavez
Welterweight Paulo Thiago vs. Gasan Umalatov
Featherweight Kevin Souza vs. Mark Eddiva
Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)
Heavyweight Marcos Rogerio de Lima vs. Richardson Moreira
Middleweight Ricardo Abreu vs. Wagner Silva
Bantamweight Pedro Muhnoz vs. Matt Hobar
Background
The event was expected to be headlined by a light heavyweight bout between the coaches of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3 Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva The fight was originally scheduled for UFC 173 but later shifted to this card. However, the fight will instead be contested on July 5, 2014 at UFC 175.
A heavyweight bout between Junior dos Santos and Stipe Miocic was also shifted from UFC 173 to headline this card. On May 5, 2014 Dos Santos pulled out of the fight, citing a hand injury and was replaced by Fabio Maldonado.
Demian Maia was expected to face Mike Pierce, however Pierce had to pull out of the fight due to a broken hand. Maia is now expected to face UFC newcomer Alexander Yakovlev.
Wilson Reis was briefly linked to a bout with Pedro Muhnoz at the event. However, Reis was replaced by promotional newcomer Matt Hobar.
Brian Ortega was expected to make his promotional debut against Diego Brandao. However, Brandao pulled out of the bout in the days leading up to the event citing an injury. Due to the late nature of the change, officials did not try to find a replacement and Ortega was pulled from the card as well.
Apr 22 - Updated fight card & background
May 14 - Updated fight card & background
May 30 - Updated fight card & background