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Without the pomp or star power of the company’s August outing in Rio de Janeiro, UFC 142 managed to fly largely under the radar. When last Saturday night rolled around, however, that action inside Rio’s HSBC Arena came as a surprise to many.

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A long-rumored UFC event in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo is a reality.

UFC president Dana White told MMAjunkie.com on Friday the promotion is currently searching for venues to host the event, which is targeted for an as-yet-undetermined date in June.

“It looks like it’s probably going to be a stadium show,” he said.

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Jose Aldo Jr. knows an impressive win at UFC 142 will make him a superstar in his homeland.

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If Chael Sonnen gets by Mark Munoz later this month at UFC on FOX 2, his next bout could be a huge one.

UFC president Dana White recently joined “UFC Tonight” on FUEL TV to discuss potential plans for a long-awaited rematch.

In the segment, which ultimately didn’t make it to air, White said that if Sonnen gets his rematch with UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, it’ll likely take place in Silva’s home country of Brazil – in a soccer stadium.

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As MMA continues its popularity boom around the globe, the talent pool of Brazilian fighters is becoming more and more apparent.

Take for instance, the famed Nova Uniao team, home of UFC featherweight
champion Jose Aldo, as well as a host of notables that includes Eduardo
Dantas, Wagnney Fabiano, Marcos Galvao, Thales Leites, Diego Nunes,
Marlon Sandro and Ronys Torres, among countless others.

On New year’s Eve, Nova Unaio product Rodolfo Marques hopes to add his name to that list.

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In truth, Rafael dos Anjos thought his UFC career was over before it ever really began.

Starting his octagon run with losses to Tyson Griffin and Jeremy
Stephens, the Rio de Janeiro resident assumed he’d probably be released
from the promotion.

“I didn’t know if I’d be cut when I lost to Stephens,” dos Anjos
recently told MMAjunkie.com in his native Portuguese. “But they gave me
another tough guy in Griffin, and I lost again, so I was sure I was
going to be cut.”

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Brazil has long produced top-level mixed-martial-artists, and it now
appears the country will play a big role in the plans of the sport’s
biggest promotion, the UFC.

But while fans around the globe will surely witness televised scenes
from the country’s beautiful beaches and lavish countryside,
near-incomprehensible poverty is rarely but a few steps away.

Veteran manager Alex Davis, a Brazilian native and current resident of
the country, hopes fans will keep close to their hearts the background
of some of the country’s fighting prospects, especially as the nation’s
talent continues to rise to prominence.

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While UFC middleweight contender Alan Belcher generally enters the cage sporting a pair of Muay Thai trunks, he’s also
registered four submission wins in the octagon.

And now, he’s a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt.

Belcher, who began training in the grappling art at just 14 years old,
was recently granted the rank of black belt by his longtime instructor,
Helio Soneca.

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While “Never leave it in the hands of the judges” has become an
ever-present part of MMA vernacular, Nova Uniao product Marcos Galvao might as well have it tattooed on his arm.

In his Bellator Fighting Championships debut, Galvao lost a
controversial decision to Joe Warren, and despite advancing into the
company’s season-five bantamweight tourney semifinals, “Loro” was still deemed the
loser by one of the three cageside judges.

So as Galvao prepares to take on Alexis Vila at Saturday night’s Bellator 55 event, you’ll understand of he’s a little wary of
three officials bearing pen and paper.

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It’s quite possible you’ve never actually heard of Yan Cabral.

A resident of Spain, the undefeated Nova Uniao black belt and Brazilian native began fighting
professionally in 2007, and he’s remarkably submitted each of his first
10 opponents, including Kazushi Sakuraba at September’s DREAM.17 event.

But Cabral has yet to fight on U.S. soil. After his recent high-profile win, the 28-year-old is hoping to change all that and lead a charge of European talent to global prominence.

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