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UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum

UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum
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A poster or logo for UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum.
Information
Promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship
Date March 11, 2017
Venue Centro de Formação Olímpica do Nordeste
City Fortaleza, Brazil
Attendance 14,069
Event chronology
UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson

UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum (also known as UFC Fight Night 106) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on March 11, 2017 at the Centro de Formação Olímpica do Nordeste in Fortaleza, Brazil.

The event was the second that the promotion has hosted in Ceará, and first since UFC on Fuel TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum which was held at Ginásio Paulo Sarasate in June of 2013. This event was expected to be UFC Fight Night 107, but an initially planned UFN 106 in Las Vegas, Nevada never materialized, prompting the change in numbers.

A middleweight bout between former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and UFC 12 Heavyweight Tournament winner Vitor Belfort and The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen middleweight winner Kelvin Gastelum was the event headliner.

Ion Cutelaba was briefly linked to a bout against Luis Henrique da Silva at the event. However the bout never materialized due to an undisclosed injury for Cutelaba. Da Silva was expected to remain on the card against another opponent, but elected to take another fight at a separate event.

Alex Nicholson was briefly linked to a bout with promotional newcomer Paulo Henrique Costa at the event. However, Nicholson was removed from the pairing in favor of Garreth McLellan.

Max Griffin was expected to face Sérgio Moraes at the event. However, Griffin pulled out of the fight on March 2 citing an undisclosed injury. He was replaced by promotional newcomer Davi Ramos.


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