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UFC 153: Silva vs. Bonnar is an upcoming mixed martial arts (MMA) pay-per-view event expected to occur on October 13, 2012 at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Official Fight Card

Main Card (PPV)

Light Heavyweight Brazil Anderson Silva vs United States Stephan Bonnar
Heavyweight Brazil Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira vs United States Dave Herman
Light Heavyweight Brazil Glover Teixeira vs Brazil Fabio Maldonado
Welterweight Brazil Erick Silva vs United States Jon Fitch
Light Heavyweight Brazil Wagner Prado vs United States Phil Davis
Welterweight Brazil Demian Maia vs United States Rick Story

Preliminary Card (FX)

Featherweight Brazil Rony Mariano Bezerra vs United States Sam Sicilia
Lightweight Brazil Gleison Tibau vs Brazil Francisco Trinaldo
Featherweight Brazil Diego Brandao vs United States Joey Gambino
Welterweight Brazil Sergio Moraes vs Brazil Renee Forte

Preliminary Card (Facebook)

Middleweight Brazil Luiz Cané vs United States Chris Camozzi
Lightweight Brazil Cristiano Marcello vs Sweden Reza Madadi


Background

Vitor Belfort was expected to face Alan Belcher at the event. However, Belfort was pulled from the bout and is now expected to face Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones on September 22, 2012 at UFC 152. Belcher also was forced to drop out of the card due to a spinal fracture.

After having their first fight end in a no contest due to an eye poke in the first round, a rematch between Phil Davis and Wagner Prado was briefly linked to UFC on FX 5, then scheduled for this event.

Quinton Jackson was scheduled to face Glover Teixeira at the event. However, Jackson pulled out of the bout citing an injury, and was replaced by Fabio Maldonado in the co-featured bout. Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans was offered the fight with Teixeira but turned it down due to the short notice.

Geronimo dos Santos was scheduled to fight Gabriel Gonzaga at this event. However, dos Santos pulled out of the bout for medical reasons, and the fight was scratched from the card.

Aug 31 - updated fightcard
Sept 11 - updated fightcard
Sept 13 - updated fightcard
sept 26 - updated fightcard & background
oct 8 - updated fightcard & background

Here's an updated poster:-

Above is now an out of date poster, here's a update of the poster:-

Aug 31 - updated fightcard (new headliner, Koch out knee injury)

Poster changed too, thx guys for keeping the info up to date!

Sept 11 - updated fight card (Rampage Jackson out with elbow injury)

Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson Out of UFC 153
Bad news for those hoping that UFC 153 would go off without any other injuries. According to UFC president Dana White, former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson isn't fighting Glover Teixeira at UFC 153 due to injury. He announced it to the world via twitter a little while ago:

Dana White
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@danawhite
Rampage is hurt and out of UFC 153 RIO. SUCKS!!!!!!
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Jackson (32-10) had talked of leaving the UFC after this bout since this was the last fight on his contract, but I guess that will have to wait for now. No word on the injury has come out as of yet, but Rampage has talked many times of fighting through injuries before so this is probably serious. No new opponent for Teixeira has been named yet, but that will probably be handled in the next few days.

UPDATE - MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani is reporting that Jackson suffered an elbow injury.

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/9/11/33 ... a-mma-news

Sept 11 - updated fight card (Jose Aldo out with injury)

I know Aldo had a accident on his motor bike but what I read was he was still fighting, and I can not find any news about this, where is your source.

Jose Aldo hit by car, relegated to public transportation until UFC 153
That was close.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo was hit by a car over the weekend while traveling on his motorcycle in Brazil. "Junior" was unharmed during the accident, but his coach, Andre Pederneiras, has instructed his star pupil to stay off the streets for the next few weeks.

Fighters Only has the report:

Teammates Luis Ramos and Alexandre Baixinho, who live close to the place where "Scarface" was involved in the car crash, showed up immediately and took Aldo to the gym for a meet with head coach Andre Pederneiras.

After checking that everything was OK with Jose, "Dede" recommended his athlete only to take taxis until October 13th, the date in which he will face off Frankie Edgar.

Whew.

Considering this is the same type of accident that nearly ended the career of UFC Heavyweight Frank Mir, Aldo is lucky to escape unscathed. I'm sure Frankie Edgar is also relieved, considering "The Answer" recently opted to fill in for the injured Erik Koch at UFC 153 on Oct. 13 in Rio.

All's well that ends well.

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FOUND IT

https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/245629297098903552

Now Aldo is out with foot injury. Main and co main in the same day!! Another amazing day at the UFC. We have some work to do