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UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Stephens (also known as UFC Fight Night 44) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held on June 28, 2014 at AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.


Official fight card

Main Card (Fox Sports 1)

Featherweight Cub Swanson vs. Jeremy Stephens
Welterweight Kelvin Gastelum vs. Nicholas Musoke
Middleweight Cezar Ferreira vs. Andrew Craig
Featherweight Ricardo Lamas vs. Hacran Dias
Middleweight Clint Hester vs. Antonio Braga Neto
Lightweight Joe Ellenberger vs. James Moontasri

Preliminary card (Fox Sports 1)

Lightweight Colton Smith vs. Carlos Diego Ferreira
Bantamweight Johnny Bedford vs. Cody Gibson
Middleweight Marcelo Guimarães vs. Andy Enz
Flyweight Ray Borg vs. Shane Howell

Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)

Heavyweight Oleksiy Oliynyk vs. Anthony Hamilton


Background

The event will be first that the organization has hosted in San Antonio. Zuffa hosted World Extreme Cagefighting event, WEC 43 back in 2009.

The event is expected to be headlined by a featherweight bout between Cub Swanson and Jeremy Stephens.

Rani Yahya was expected to face Johnny Bedford in a rematch from their bout at UFC Fight Night 39. However, Yahya was forced out of the bout and replaced by Cody Gibson.

Myles Jury was scheduled to face Abel Trujillo at the event. However, Jury pulled out of the bout with an injury and was replaced briefly replaced by Frank Trevino. Subsequently, Trevino's originally scheduled opponent on the card, Joe Ellenberger, was briefly linked to bouts with newcomers Johnny Case and Bryan Barberena. However, Case and Barberena were removed just days after being announced as well[5][6] and were eventually replaced by another newcomer James Moontasri. Then on June 9, Trevino pulled out of the bout and Trujillo was removed from the card entirely.

A welterweight bout between Sean Spencer and Luiz Dutra was official for this card but had to be scrapped due to an injury.



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