Diego Brandao Injured, TUF Brazil 3 Finale Fight With Brian Ortega Scrapped
The injury curse has struck again for the TUF Brazil 3 Finale, this time it’s Diego Brandao that bites the bullet. An undisclosed injury has forced Brandao from his featherweight scrap against debuting Brian Ortega, and a replacement fighter for the undefeated Ortega was not looked for, instead he has been pulled from the card.
The event took it’s first blow when Wanderlei Silva vs. Chael Sonnen was moved to UFC 175, and was further damaged when Junior dos Santos was scratched from the main event with Stipe Miocic-also due to an injury. ‘Cigano’ was replaced by Fabio Maldonado in the evening’s main, and the embattled card soldiers on with a thrown together headliner and nine more fights to accompany it.
The finals of the third season of the Brazilian version of the hit reality show will go down in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and will feature a middleweight and heavyweight tournament final fight. Local favorites Demian Maia, Rony Jason and Paulo Thiago are still on hand to give the card some much needed draw, but will that be enough considering all the chops and changes? Take a look at how the card stands now:
MAIN CARD
Junior dos Santos Fabio Maldonado vs. Stipe Miocic
Warlley Alves vs. opponent TBA – “TUF: Brazil 3″ middleweight tourney final
Antonio Carlos Junior vs. opponent TBA – “TUF: Brazil 3″ heavyweight tourney final
Demian Maia vs. Alexander Yakovlev
Rony Jason vs. Robert Peralta
PRELIMINARY CARD
Diego Brandao vs. Brian Ortega
Ernest Chavez vs. Elias Silverio
Rodrigo Damm vs. Rashid Magomedov
Paulo Thiago vs. Gasan Umalatov
Mark Eddiva vs. Kevin Souza
Matt Hobar vs. Pedro Munhoz
