Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen rematch to serve as UFC 148 main event in Las Vegas (not Brazil) on July 7

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) today (April 24, 2012) announced Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen II as the new headlining bout for the UFC 148 pay-per-view (PPV) event on July 7 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The announcement and subsequent change in plans were revealed at today's UFC 148 pre-fight press conference. For updates, live blog and real-time video stream of the presser click here.

"The Spider" was expected to defend his 185-pound strap against his arch nemesis in the main event of UFC 147 on June 23 in Brazil; however, extenuating circumstances forced the world's largest fight promotion to shuffle the deck and send its two middleweight stars to "Sin City."

Any changes coming to the UFC 147 line-up, including the 185-pound grudge match between Wanderlei Silva vs. Vitor Belfort, have yet to be revealed

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Check out this frigging card!

Middleweight bout: Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen
Light Heavyweight bout: Tito Ortiz vs Forrest Griffin
Middleweight bout: Rich Franklin vs. Cung Le
Middleweight bout: Michael Bisping vs. Tim Boetsch
Welterweight bout: Demian Maia vs. Dong Hyun Kim

Bantamweight bout: Renan Barão vs. Ivan Menjivar
Lightweight bout: Melvin Guillard vs. Fabrício Camões
Middleweight bout: Constantinos Philippou vs. Riki Fukuda
Lightweight bout: Gleison Tibau vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov

I thought Faber/Cruz was going to be on this one as well? Still should be ppv-worthy either way

That looks like a bad ass card...why is it so far off? I want it next weekend!!

Silva accepted the fight even though it's not gonna be in Brazil?
Awww, that's too bad! Now you guys don't get to rip on him for saying no and ducking Chael!

i wonder if chael knew about this a while ago when he was spewing all about how he guarantied he wasnt fighting anderson in brazil this summer????

Yeah I wonder if there aren't some security issues for Sonnen and his big mouth.

Does anyone else find it weird that they can't do Silva vs Sonnen in Brazil because of a scheduling conflict, but they can still do the rest of the event?
WTF?!

Could it be any more obvious that this is a completely made-up excuse to get Chael out of fighting in Brazil?

butterknifeninja wrote:

Check out this frigging card!

Middleweight bout: Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen
Light Heavyweight bout: Tito Ortiz vs Forrest Griffin
Middleweight bout: Rich Franklin vs. Cung Le
Middleweight bout: Michael Bisping vs. Tim Boetsch
Welterweight bout: Demian Maia vs. Dong Hyun Kim

Bantamweight bout: Renan Barão vs. Ivan Menjivar
Lightweight bout: Melvin Guillard vs. Fabrício Camões
Middleweight bout: Constantinos Philippou vs. Riki Fukuda
Lightweight bout: Gleison Tibau vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov

I thought Faber/Cruz was going to be on this one as well? Still should be ppv-worthy either way

Now this is a paper-view worth getting. I am super excited for this card. I am with samger on this one too, it needs to be next weekend. So I have to ask cause i wouldnt be me if i didnt, But who here thinks if chael wins and Bisping wins there should be a rematch for the title? That fight was super close and on short notice. i want to see how these 2 fight when given proper time to prepare for each other.