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UFC 126 Silva vs Belfort

Date
Sat 5th February 2011 (UTC)
Sat 5th February 2011 (Local)

Timestamp
2011-02-05T00:00:00

Time
00:00:00 UTC

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League
UFC

Season
2011

Round
3

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Location
Mandalay Bay Casino
(10,893 Attendance)

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Description
UFC 126: Silva vs. Belfort was a mixed martial arts pay-per-view event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on February 5, 2011, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Background
Former Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort was scheduled to fight Yushin Okami at UFC 122. However, UFC President Dana White said that Belfort would instead challenge Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva for the belt. Belfort was originally scheduled to compete against Silva on January 2, 2010, at UFC 108, but due to an injury sustained by Silva, the fight had to be postponed until February 6, 2010, at UFC 109 and April 10, 2010, at UFC 112, respectively. However, both fights were cancelled.

A bout between Kenny Florian and Evan Dunham was expected for this event. The fight was moved to UFC: Fight For The Troops 2.

A bout between Jon Fitch and Jake Ellenberger was expected for this event. However Fitch was pulled from the bout and instead fought former two-division champion B.J. Penn at UFC 127. Ellenberger remained on the card and instead fought Carlos Eduardo Rocha.

Sam Stout was originally scheduled to face Paul Kelly at this event, but dropped off of the card due to injury. Donald Cerrone stepped in to replace him, in what would become the first UFC lightweight fight featuring a fighter imported from the World Extreme Cagefighting following their merger in December 2010.

UFC 126 featured two preliminary fights live on Spike TV, and one preliminary fight on their Facebook stream.


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01				Anderson Silva	WIN
01				Vitor Belfort	LOSS
02				Forrest Griffin	WIN
02				Rich Franklin	LOSS
03				Jon Jones	WIN
03				Ryan Bader	LOSS
04				Jake Ellenberger	WIN
04				Carlos Eduardo Rocha	LOSS
05				Miguel Angel Torres	WIN
05				Antonio Banuelos	LOSS
06				Donald Cerrone	WIN
06				Paul Kelly	LOSS
07				Chad Mendes	WIN
07				Michihiro Omigawa	LOSS
08				Demetrious Johnson	WIN
08				Norifumi Yamamoto	LOSS
09				Paul Taylor	WIN
09				Gabe Ruediger	LOSS
10				Kyle Kingsbury	WIN
10				Ricardo Romero	LOSS
11				Mike Pierce	WIN
11				Kenny Robertson	LOSS

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