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UFC Fight Night 54: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine is an upcoming mixed martial arts event that will be held at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on October 4, 2014.
Official fight card
Main Card (Fox Sports 1)
Welterweight Rory MacDonald vs. Tarec Saffiedine
Bantamweight Raphael Assunção vs. Bryan Caraway
Lightweight Chad Laprise vs. Yosdenis Cedeno
Middleweight Elias Theodorou vs. Bruno Santos
Welterweight Nordine Taleb vs. Li Jingliang
Bantamweight Mitch Gagnon vs. Roman Salazar
Preliminary card (Fox Sports 2)
Lightweight Daron Cruickshank vs. Anthony Njokuani
Lightweight Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Jake Lindsey
Lightweight Jason Saggo vs. Paul Felder
Flyweight Patrick Holohan vs. Chris Kelades
Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)
Welterweight Albert Tumenov vs. Matt Dwyer
Bantamweight Pedro Munhoz vs. Jerrod Sanders
Background
This event will be the first event that the UFC will host in Halifax and the third event in Canada in 2014, following The Ultimate Fighter Nations Finale: Bisping vs. Kennedy and UFC 174.
The main event is expected to feature a Welterweight bout between Rory MacDonald and Tarec Saffiedine.
A bout between Paige VanZant and Kailin Curran was briefly linked to this event, but delayed a month and rescheduled for UFC Fight Night 57, after VanZant suffered a minor injury.
Aljamain Sterling was expected to face Mitch Gagnon at this event. However, Sterling was forced to withdraw due to an injury and was replaced by Rob Font. Subsequently, Font pulled out of the fight the week of the event and was replaced by Roman Salazar.
Louis Gaudinot was expected to face Patrick Holohan at the event. However, Gaudinot pulled out of the fight in the week leading up to the event and was replaced by Chris Kelades.
Oct 2 - Updated Fight Card & background