UFC 134 officially is a heavily anticipated event.

Officials recently announced that the event, which is the UFC's first in Brazil in 13 years, sold out in just 74 minutes.

The event takes place Aug. 27 at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro. UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and top contender Yushin Okami headline the pay-per-view show.

Tickets went on sale to the general public on Saturday. A pre-sale period for arena-VIP customers took place Thursday.

As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported following a media event in Rio this past week, the event is expected to accommodate nearly 17,000 fans. UFC president Dana White expects it to be the first of multiple shows, including pay-per-view events and UFC Fight Night shows, to take place throughout the country in the next year.

To date the UFC has hosted just one show in Brazil: "UFC Ultimate Brazil" (UFC 17.5) in October 1998. That show took place in Sao Paulo.

The latest UFC 134 card now includes:

MAIN CARD
Champ Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami (for middleweight title)
Forrest Griffin vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
Edson Barboza vs. Ross Pearson
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Brendan Schaub
Luiz Cane vs. Stanislav Nedkov


PRELIMINARY CARD
Spencer Fisher vs. Thiago Tavares
David Mitchell vs. Paulo Thiago
Erick Silva vs. Mike Swick
Yves Jabouin vs. Ian Loveland
Yuri Alcantara vs. Antonio Carvalho
Alexandre "Cacareco" Ferreira vs. Rousimar Palhares*



Source: UFC 134 in Brazil sells out in 74 minutes

incredible

gonna be interesting...
although this card hasnt really got me pumped yet...

I have to say that I was quite surprised about how quickly it sold out.
Brazil has a big divide of social class between rich and poor and while we do have a fledgeling amount of MMA fans we don't any real big structured MMA promotions. Soccer remains the #1 sport out there and the lack of MMA Brazilian superstars in its own country gave me pause so it's nice to see how the UFC impacts in the new market.

As for the card I'm pretty pumped for the main card and the prelims has gems here and there WAR Carvalho!

Brazil middleclass is getting much better of lately. The gaps still remain betwen really poor and really rich but changes are evident. It's a maturing country economically and vale tudo / mma is incredibly popular since a long time back so it is a good moment for UFC event in Brazil right now.