UFC Fight Night 133 - dos Santos vs. Ivanov --- UFC on Fox 30 - Alvarez vs. Poirier 2
UFC Fight Night 134: Shogun vs. Smith is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will be held on July 22, 2018, at Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Germany.Fight Card
Main card (Fox Sports 1)Light Heavyweight Maurício Rua vs. Anthony Smith
Light Heavyweight Glover Teixeira vs. Corey Anderson
Middleweight Vitor Miranda vs. Abu Azaitar
Heavyweight Marcin Tybura vs. Stefan Struve
Welterweight Danny Roberts vs. David Zawada
Lightweight Nasrat Haqparast vs. Marc Diakiese Preliminary card (Fox Sports 1)Lightweight Nick Hein vs. Damir Hadžović
Welterweight Emil Weber Meek vs. Bartosz Fabiński
Featherweight Khalid Taha vs. Nad Narimani
Light Heavyweight Justin Ledet vs. Aleksandar Rakić Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)Bantamweight Davey Grant vs. Manny Bermudez
Light Heavyweight Jeremy Kimball vs. Darko Stošić
Bantamweight Damian Stasiak vs. Liu Pingyuan BackgroundThe event will be the second that the promotion has contested in Hamburg, following UFC Fight Night 93 in September of 2016.
A light heavyweight bout between former title challenger Volkan Oezdemir and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Maurício Rua was expected to headline the event. The pairing was previously scheduled in the co-headliner slot at UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman, but was delayed after Oezdemir was pulled from that event due to alleged visa issues stemming from a previous legal transgression, restricting his travel to Chile. The bout was again cancelled when Oezdemir was removed in favor of a bout against fellow former title challenger Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 227. He was replaced by Anthony Smith.
A bantamweight bout between Davey Grant and Manny Bermudez, was previously scheduled for UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till. However, Grant pulled out of the fight after being diagnosed with a staph infection, and the bout was scrapped. The pairing was left intact and rescheduled for this event.
Ilir Latifi was scheduled to face former light heavyweight title challenger Glover Teixeira at the event. However on July 5, it was announced that Latifi suffered an injury and was pulled from the fight. He was replaced by The Ultimate Fighter: Team Edgar vs. Team Penn light heavyweight winner Corey Anderson.
Alan Jouban was expected to face Danny Roberts at the event, but pulled out on July 12 due to a neck injury. He was replaced by promotional newcomer David Zawada.Jul 17 - Updated fight card & background
