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

Antonio Silva (Strikeforce)

Bigfoot replaces Frank Mir to be able to experience previous heavyweight champ

When Alistair Overeem had been pulled from his main event heavyweight 7steps combat champion , the idea set off some sort of domino result for that remaining portion of the primary card.

After Cain Velasquez and proper concept battle with dos Santos, Velasquez was in need of any fresh opponent. That opponent, seeing that UFC chief executive Dana White proclaimed this week, is going to be Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva . The battle would be the co-main affair belonging to the promotion's Memorial Day weekend card along at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 26.

Though the Mir-Velasquez combat was to get top-notch contenders round with all the winner getting in a new title chance with all the dos Santos-Overeem winner, it isn't recognised whether Velasquez-Silva will serve similar purpose.

Velasquez (9-1, 7-1 UFC) received the heavyweight title towards at UFC 121 with October 2010. But after a lot more than a year off of thanks to injuries, your dog lost the belt to be able to dos Santos for the first UFC upon Fox occurrence within November. It was the primary diminished his profession following establishing 9-0 using eight knockouts, such as several Knockout on the Night benefit awards.

Velasquez appeared to be a two-time All-American wrestler at Arizona State with current UFC practitioners Ryan Bader along with C.B. Dollaway. In the actual run-up to his subject conquer Lesnar, Velasquez have stoppage wins over Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira along with Ben Rothwell, and also a decision success over Cheick Kongo a common period they have already been considered the particular distance.

Silva (16-3) will probably be generating his UFC debut right after a five-fight function in Strikeforce, when he travelled 3-2. Most notably, Silva stopped your legendary Fedor Emelianenko with February 2011 within the cracking open spherical involving Strikeforce's heavyweight great prix tournament, earning a physician's stoppage soon after a couple units throughout one of several year's most significant upsets. That win had been another direct for "Bigfoot" while in the advertising after victories around previous UFC heavyweight champ Andrei Arlovski in addition to Mike Kyle.

But inside semifinals of the heavyweight tournament situation in September, Silva suffered various Daniel Cormier , exactly who was stepping in for Overeem, who seem to were being torn in two from the tournament with an injury, then published from your promotion as it has the heavyweight champion. In that initial round, Cormier dropped Silva, that had a major height along with attain advantage, along with accomplished him or her using techinques within the ground. In January, Silva announced which this individual acquired signed binding agreement by using the particular UFC, which includes gradually happen to be getting above Strikeforce's heavyweight practitioners around expectancy involving dissolving that excess fat elegance around that promotion.

The genesis associated with the UFC 146 principal cartomancy knobs is from Overeem jogging afoul with the Nevada State Athletic Commission sooner that thirty days as soon as it was before uncovered a new pre-fight medication test they procured tried good pertaining to increased testosterone-to-epitestosterone levels. Overeem with Friday has been stripped away from your cartomancy by way of White, whom formerly had reported which whatever might transpire intended for an opponent intended for dos Santos, the Velasquez vs. Mir combat could continue to be to the cards . Overeem appeared to be planned appearing in front of your NSAC on Tuesday it is supposed to request a continuance within his or her case. In your record unveiled yesterday, Overeem explained his elevated T/E percentage was caused by a doctor-prescribed anti-inflammatory medication. His screened concentrations were over 10:1, according to your NSAC, as well as happen to be noted to possibly be 14:1. The NSAC's highest normal is definitely 6:1. Other point out profits possess a common associated with 4:1. The common male incorporates a T/E proportion of 1:1.

Along using the all-heavyweight principal card, UFC 146 comes with a featherweight struggle involving TUF 14 successful Diego Brandao and Darren Elkins; a middleweight attack concerning Jason "Mayhem" Miller along with C.B. Dollaway; a welterweight spell in between Dan Hardy and Duane Ludwig; light and portable spats somewhere between Paul Sass and Jacob Volkmann along with Edson Barboza along with Evan Dunham; and ex - WEC featherweight champ Mike Brown vs. Daniel Pineda.