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UFC Fight Night 55: Rockhold vs. Bisping is an upcoming mixed martial arts event that will be held at the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia on November 8, 2014.
Official fight card
Fight card (UFC Fight Pass)
Middleweight Luke Rockhold vs. Michael Bisping
Lightweight Ross Pearson vs. Al Iaquinta
Middleweight Robert Whittaker vs. Clint Hester
Heavyweight Soa Palelei vs. Walt Harris
Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)
Lightweight Jake Matthews vs. Vagner Rocha
Light Heavyweight Anthony Perosh vs. Guto Inocente
Welterweight Dylan Andrews vs. Sam Alvey
Welterweight Vik Grujic vs. Chris Clements
Flyweight Richie Vaculik vs. Louis Smolka
Middleweight Luke Zachrich vs. Daniel Kelly
Bantamweight Jumabieke Tuerxun vs. Marcus Brimage
Background
This event will be the fourth event that the UFC will host in Sydney and the sixth event to take place in Australia. The last time the UFC was in Sydney was for UFC on FX: Alves vs. Kampmann on March 3, 2012.
Ray Borg was expected to face Richie Vaculik at this event. However, Borg was forced to pull out of the event due to injury and was replaced by Neil Seery.
Patrick Williams was expected to face Jumabieke Tuerxun at the event. However, Williams was forced out of the bout due to injury and was replaced by Marcus Brimage.
A scheduled featherweight bout between Mark Eddiva and Mike De La Torre was scrapped after both fighters suffered injuries.
Daniel Omielańczuk was expected to face Soa Palelei at this event. However, Omielańczuk was forced to pull out of this event due to injury and was replaced by Walt Harris.
Aljamain Sterling was expected to face Frankie Saenz, though Saenz was forced to withdraw from the bout. Promotional newcomer Michael Imperato was briefly linked as a replacment. However, his signing was quickly rescinded.
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