The promotion Tuesday announced one more fight for UFC 134, which will take place Aug. 27 in Rio de Janeiro. Not surprisingly, it features a Brazilian fighter.
Yuri Alcantara, who was originally thought to be facing Mackens Semerzier on the card, will fight Antonio Carvalho. That gives the card 10 fights - and nine of them feature Brazilians.
Alcantara (24-3) is coming off a knockout win over Ricardo Lamas at the last World Extreme Cagefighting event, WEC 53 in December, before the merger with the UFC. That was the Brazilian's major promotion debut as well as his U.S. debut. The former lightweight will drop to the UFC's growing featherweight division to face Carvalho in his home country, where all but two of his pro fights have taken place.
Alcantara's knockout of Lamas was his 11th straight win - he went 8-0 in 2010 alone. And 10 of those 11 wins were stoppages - six submissions and four knockout or TKOs.
Carvalho (13-4), a Canadian, will make his UFC debut and comes in on a three-fight winning streak. Earlier this month, he beat Doug Evans in the promotional debut of the Score Fighting Series in Ontario. Like Alcantara, Carvalho is also a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
UFC 134 now features a promotional record nine Brazilians. Previously, UFC 90 in October 2008 in Chicago featured seven Brazilian fighters. The five current bouts between Brazilian and U.S. fighters would not be a record. UFC 85 featured six U.S.-Brazil bouts. The only bout scheduled for the card that does feature a Brazilian is a bantamweight bout between Yves Jabouin, of Canada, and Ian Loveland, of the U.S.
UFC 134 will take place at the HSBC Arena in Rio and will be the UFC's first trip to Brazil since UFC Ultimate Brazil in October 1998. The card features a main event middleweight title fight between Brazilian champion Anderson Silva and Japan's Yushin Okami, the last person to beat him - though it was due to an illegal upkick.
The show also features a light heavyweight bout between former champions Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Forrest Griffin, and a heavyweight tilt between Brendan Schaub an Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
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