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UFC 203: Miocic vs Overeem is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) that will be held on September 10, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
Official fight card
Main Card
Heavyweight Stipe Miocic (c) vs. Alistair Overeem For the UFC Heavyweight Championship
Heavyweight Fabrício Werdum vs. Travis Browne
Welterweight CM Punk vs. Mickey Gall
Bantamweight Urijah Faber vs. Jimmie Rivera
Women's Strawweight Jéssica Andrade vs. Joanne Calderwood
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)
Women's Bantamweight Jessica Eye vs. Bethe Correia
Lightweight Nik Lentz vs. Michael McBride
Middleweight Caio Magalhães vs. Brad Tavares
Flyweight Ian McCall vs. Ray Borg
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Welterweight Yancy Medeiros vs. Sean Spencer
Light Heavyweight CB Dollaway vs. Francimar Barroso
Lightweight Drew Dober vs. Jason Gonzalez
Background
This will be the first UFC event in Cleveland.
The event is expected to be headlined by a UFC Heavyweight Championship match with current champion Stipe Miocic defending the title against 2010 K-1 World Grand Prix winner and former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem.
The professional debut of former professional wrestler and two-time WWE Champion CM Punk is scheduled to take place at this event. Punk, who signed with the UFC in December 2014, had a delayed debut due to past injuries from professional wrestling that needed treatment and also due to Punk's need for training time. He will make his debut against Mickey Gall in a welterweight bout.
Ben Rothwell was expected to face former heavyweight champion Fabrício Werdum at this event. However on August 11, Rothwell pulled out due to injury. A team representative said he may have suffered a torn meniscus and could have an ACL injury. He was replaced by Travis Browne. This will be a rematch as Werdum defeated Browne via unanimous decision at UFC on Fox: Werdum vs. Browne in 2014.
A lightweight bout between Erik Koch and Drew Dober was originally booked for UFC 195, but Koch pulled out due to an injury and the bout was scrapped. The fight was later rescheduled for this event, until Koch pulled out again due to injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer Jason Gonzalez.
Mairbek Taisumov was expected to face Nik Lentz at the event. However, Taisumov was removed from the fight on September 1 for alleged visa issues and replaced by promotional newcomer Michael McBride.
On September 5, it was announced that the lightweight bout between Damir Hadžovic and Yusuke Kasuya, slated to open the preliminary portion of the card, was postponed and will now take place at October's UFC Fight Night 97 after Hadzovic experienced issue with his travel visa.
Aug 20 - Updated fight card & background
Sep 02 - Updated fight card & background
Sep 06 - Updated fight card & background