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UFC Fight Night 56: Shogun vs. St. Preux is an upcoming mixed martial arts event that will be held at the Ginásio Municipal Tancredo Neves in Uberlândia, Brazil, on November 8, 2014.Official fight card
Main Card (Fox Sports 1)Light Heavyweight Maurício Rua vs. Ovince St. Preux
Flyweight Ian McCall vs. John Lineker
Welterweight Warlley Alves vs. Alan Jouban
Welterweight Cláudio Silva vs. Leon Edwards
Women's Strawweight Juliana Lima vs. Nina Ansaroff Preliminary card (Fox Sports 2)Featherweight Diego Rivas vs. Rodolfo Rubio
Middleweight Caio Magalhães vs. Trevor Smith
Welterweight Dhiego Lima vs. Jorge Oliveira
Lightweight Leandro Silva vs. Charlie Brenneman
Bantamweight Thomas Almeida vs. Tim GormanPreliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)Welterweight Wagner Silva vs. Colby CovingtonBackgroundAfter previously holding events in Minas Gerais's largest city Belo Horizonte, the event will be the first that the organization has hosted in Uberlândia.
A light heavyweight bout between Maurício Rua and Jimi Manuwa was expected to serve as event headliner. However, on October 29, it was announced that Manuwa had pulled out of the fight due to injury and that Ovince St. Preux would replace him in main event against Rua.
Rafael Cavalcante was expected to face Ovince St. Preux at the event. However, Cavalcante pulled out of the bout citing injury and was replaced by Francimar Barroso. Subsequently, this fight was scrapped when St. Preux was tabbed as a replacement in the event headliner.
Dhiego Lima was originally scheduled to face Pawel Pawlak at this event. However, Pawlak was forced to pull out of the fight due to injury and replaced by Jorge Oliveira.Oct 29 - Updated fight card
Nov 6 - Updated fight card & background
