Bonus Awards - Main Event At Ufc 146 Heavy - Antonio Silva New Co - Cain Velasquez Vs

Antonio Silva (Strikeforce)

Bigfoot replaces Frank Mir that will experience ex - heavyweight champ

When Alistair Overeem has been pulled apart from his main event heavyweight name fight against champion , the item stress a new domino effect for the majority belonging to the principal card.

After Cain Velasquez and right into a name fight together with dos Santos, Velasquez what food was in need of a brand-new opponent. That opponent, as UFC us president Dana White declared this kind of week, is going to be Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva . The attack would be the co-main affair of the promotion's Memorial Day end of the week card during the actual MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 26.

Though the particular Mir-Velasquez deal with was to become top rated contenders bout considering the success going in your title result with all the dos Santos-Overeem winner, it is not recognized regardless of whether Velasquez-Silva will provide a similar purpose.

Velasquez (9-1, 7-1 UFC) picked up the particular heavyweight subject versus from UFC 121 in October 2010. But after greater than a year out of on account of injuries, they lost that belt to be able to dos Santos at the first UFC on Fox function in November. It has been the initial loss in his occupation following starting up 9-0 along with eight knockouts, which includes about three Knockout in the Night plus awards.

Velasquez was a two-time All-American wrestler during Arizona State down recent UFC martial artists Ryan Bader in addition to C.B. Dollaway. In that run-up to his title acquire over Lesnar, Velasquez have stoppage is the winner more than Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Ben Rothwell, together with a decision success over Cheick Kongo the one time frame they've been consumed the particular distance.

Silva (16-3) are going to be generating his UFC debut right after a five-fight manage inside Strikeforce, where by he / she journeyed 3-2. Most notably, Silva gave up on the actual popular Fedor Emelianenko in February 2011 inside the beginning rounded associated with Strikeforce's heavyweight awesome prix tournament, making your optician's stoppage once a couple of models of hospitality attire belonging to the year's most significant upsets. That win was the 3rd straight with regard to "Bigfoot" while in the promotion once wins around ex - UFC heavyweight champ Andrei Arlovski and Mike Kyle.

But inside this semifinals of the heavyweight event with September, Silva encountered various Daniel Cormier , who seemed to be stepping in regarding Overeem, whom possessed recently been drawn from your tournament using a strong injury, then released with the promo when it is heavyweight champion. In the very first round, Cormier dropped Silva, exactly who had a big elevation and also reach advantage, and accomplished him or her having attacks around the ground. In January, Silva publicised that your dog experienced authorized a legal contract having your UFC, who has slowly but surely happen to be taking around Strikeforce's heavyweight fighters with worry associated with dissolving the particular weight class in that promotion.

The genesis from the UFC 146 primary cards changes is coming from Overeem running afoul on the Nevada State Athletic Commission sooner this particular thirty days when ?t had been revealed your pre-fight drug experiment they took analyzed positive for heightened testosterone-to-epitestosterone levels. Overeem about Friday was taken off this card by means of White, who seem to earlier had claimed which regardless of what might happen to get an opponent for dos Santos, the actual Velasquez vs. Mir deal with might remain for the unit card . Overeem ended up being scheduled to seem when in front of the particular NSAC on Tuesday and it is anticipated to request a continuance in his / her case. In a declaration introduced yesterday, Overeem said his elevated T/E percentage had been due to a doctor-prescribed anti-inflammatory medication. His tried amounts have been more than 10:1, in accordance with this NSAC, and are actually documented to become 14:1. The NSAC's highest regular can be 6:1. Other state commissions possess a standard involving 4:1. The common male incorporates a T/E relation regarding 1:1.

Along using the all-heavyweight most important card, UFC 146 includes featherweight fight involving TUF fourteen champion Diego Brandao and Darren Elkins; some sort of middleweight spell involving Jason "Mayhem" Miller and C.B. Dollaway; some sort of welterweight spell in between Dan Hardy and Duane Ludwig; lightweight fights between Paul Sass and also Jacob Volkmann and Edson Barboza plus Evan Dunham; and ex - WEC featherweight champ Mike Brown vs. Daniel Pineda.