[Event] UFC 147 - Silva vs. Franklin - June 23

Dent · **Posted:** Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:04 pm

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UFC 147: Silva vs. Franklin is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event is expected to take place on June 23, 2012 at Estádio Jornalista Felipe Drumond in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Official fight card

Main card

Rich Franklin (190) vs. Wanderlei Silva (188)
Cezar "Mutante" Ferreira (184) vs. Sergio "Serginho" Moraes (185)
Rony "Jason" Mariano Bezerra (146) vs. Godofredo "Pepey" de Oliveira (145)
Mike Russow (248) vs. Fabricio Werdum (246)
Yuri Alcantara (146) vs. Hacran Dias (146)

Preliminary card (FX)

Rodrigo Damm (146) vs. Anistavio "Gasparzinho" Medeiros (146)
Francisco "Massaranduba" Drinaldo (183) vs. Delson "Pe de Chumbo" Heleno (185)
John "Macapa" Teixeira (150) vs. Hugo "Wolverine" Viana (145)
Leonardo "Macarrao" Mafra Teixeira (182) vs. Thiago de Oliveira Perpetuo (184)

Preliminary card (Facebook)

Marcos Vinicius "Vina" Borges Pancini (146) vs. Wagner "Galeto" Campos (145)
Felipe Arantes (146) vs. Milton Vieira (146)

Background

The finals in the featherweight and middleweight tournaments of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil is expected to be held as well.

The possibility of changing the date or location of UFC 147 has been suggested. The change is due to a conflict with the UN Conference, Rio+20, which will be occurring during the same time frame as the UFC event. At the post-fight press conference for UFC on Fuel TV: Gustafsson vs. Silva UFC President Dana White said that the situation is being worked on and a final decision has not been reached.

On April 20, according to a published report from Sherdog.com, the event is expected to still take place on June 23, 2012, however the location and venue has changed. The event is now expected to take place at Estádio Jornalista Felipe Drumond in Belo Horizonte. While the expected rematch between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen would be moved to UFC 148 on July 7, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada and the expected co-feature of the Brazilian event, a rematch between Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva would headline the event. On April 24, the changes regarding Silva/Sonnen were confirmed. Plans were then being made for Featherweight champion Jose Aldo, who was scheduled to defend his title at UFC 149, to headline this event. However, it was reported April 28, 2012, that Aldo would remain on the UFC 149 card and defend his title against Erik Koch.

On May 26, Vitor Belfort was forced to pull out of the card after breaking his left hand while training. Silva will now face Rich Franklin in a 190 lb catchweight bout. Franklin and Silva fought once before at UFC 99, where Franklin defeated Silva via unanimous decision.

May 23 - updated location, fightcard & background
May 27 - updated fightcard
May 30 - updated fightcard
May 31 - updated fightcard & background
Jun 23 - updated fightcard

[Event] UFC 147 - Silva vs. Franklin - June 23

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