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UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) that will be held on July 9, 2016, at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.
Official fight card
Main Card
Women's Bantamweight Miesha Tate (c) vs. Amanda Nunes For the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship.
Heavyweight Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Hunt
Light Heavyweight Daniel Cormier (c) vs. Anderson Silva Non-title bout.
Featherweight José Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar For the interim UFC Featherweight Championship.
Heavyweight Cain Velasquez vs. Travis Browne
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)
Women's Bantamweight Cat Zingano vs. Julianna Peña
Catchweight (171.25 lbs) Johny Hendricks vs. Kelvin Gastelum
Bantamweight T.J. Dillashaw vs. Raphael Assunção
Lightweight Sage Northcutt vs. Enrique Marín
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Lightweight Diego Sanchez vs. Joe Lauzon
Middleweight Gegard Mousasi vs. Thiago Santos
Lightweight Jim Miller vs. Takanori Gomi
Background
The event will be the first that the organization has hosted at T-Mobile Arena, which opened in April 2016. It will take place during the UFC's annual International Fight Week and mark the second time the UFC will host three events in consecutive days.
A welterweight rematch between The Ultimate Fighter 5 winner and former lightweight title challenger Nate Diaz and current UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor was originally expected to headline the event. The pairing previously met earlier in the year at UFC 196. McGregor was expected to challenge UFC Lightweight Champion Rafael dos Anjos, but dos Anjos pulled out due to a broken foot only 11 days before the event. Diaz eventually replaced him and the bout was shifted to the welterweight division. Diaz won the fight via rear-naked choke in the second round.
On April 19, after McGregor tweeted a supposed retirement, the UFC announced that he was pulled from the event and a replacement for him was being sought. UFC President Dana White clarified that McGregor's removal was related to his refusal to come to a press conference that week, because "he was in Iceland training and didn't want to ruin his preparation for the fight". McGregor released a statement two days later, claiming he was not retired and that he requested the UFC to allow him to focus more on the fight preparation this time, as he felt he lost his focus during the media obligations for the previous fight. He then stated that he was ready for the event and would come for a scheduled New York press conference, but if that's not enough, he "doesn't know what to say". A report later claimed that the UFC decided to cancel the fight indeed, in what was rumored to be a $10 million paycheck for McGregor.
On April 27, the UFC officially announced the new headliner as a UFC Light Heavyweight Championship unification rematch between current champion Daniel Cormier and former champion Jon Jones, who is also the current interim champion. The pairing met previously at UFC 182 in January 2015 with Jones defending his title via unanimous decision. Subsequent to that victory, Jones was stripped of the title and suspended indefinitely from the UFC in connection with a hit-and-run incident that he was involved in. Cormier replaced him and went on to defeat Anthony Johnson at UFC 187 to win the vacant title. Their rematch was originally expected to take place at UFC 197, but Cormier pulled out three weeks before the event due to injury and was replaced by Ovince Saint Preux, in what became an interim title bout. Jones went on to defeat Saint Preux by unanimous decision and won the interim title.
The official poster used before Jon Jones was pulled from the event.
The event suffered another major hit only three days before it happened, as it was announced that Jones was pulled out by USADA due to a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation stemming from an out-of-competition sample collection on June 16. Cormier declared he would still fight if an opponent brought to him "made sense". Additional information on Jones' situation will be provided as as the process moves forward. A day later Jones apologized for the incident, but denied knowingly taking any illegal substance. He and his manager also declined to specify the substance that resulted in the failed test. His "B" sample also came positive for the same substances and Jones' faces a potential two-year suspension.
During the UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Alvarez broadcast, it was announced that former UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva would replace Jones on less than two days notice and face Cormier in a three-round non-title light heavyweight bout. Also the already scheduled UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship bout between current champion Miesha Tate and top contender Amanda Nunes was revealed as the new main event.
T-Mobile Arena will host the much anticipated event, which will be the 363rd overall in UFC history.
On June 4, during the UFC 199 main card broadcast, it was announced that former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar would return to the UFC in the co-main event for his first fight since December 2011. He will face the 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix winner and former interim title contender Mark Hunt. Due to Jones' removal from the card, this bout was briefly promoted as the new main event. However, the Tate-Nunes bout was announced as the new headliner and Lesnar-Hunt remained as the co-main event. Lesnar was also part of the main event on UFC 100 and with Jones' absence, he and Jim Miller remain as the only two fighters to compete in both milestone events.
Due to McGregor's experiments outside of his division, an interim UFC Featherweight Championship bout between former champion José Aldo and former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar is expected to take place at this event. This will also be a rematch, as Aldo defended his title against Edgar at UFC 156 in 2013 via unanimous decision.
The card is also expected to feature a heavyweight bout between former two-time champion Cain Velasquez and Travis Browne, and a welterweight bout between former UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks and The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen winner Kelvin Gastelum. A middleweight bout between former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Gegard Mousasi and Derek Brunson was expected to take place at this event, but on June 19 it was announced that Brunson pulled out due to injury and was replaced by Thiago Santos.
A lightweight bout between Joe Lauzon and The Ultimate Fighter 1 winner and former lightweight title challenger Diego Sanchez was originally booked for UFC 180. However, the bout was cancelled due to both fighters being injured. The fight was later rescheduled for this event. Also, another couple of lightweight bouts between former PRIDE Lightweight Champion Takanori Gomi and Jim Miller, as well as Sage Northcutt and Enrique Marín are expected to take place at this event.
Also on the card there will be a women's bantamweight bout between former title challenger Cat Zingano and The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate winner Julianna Peña, and a bantamweight rematch between former UFC Bantamweight Champion T.J. Dillashaw and Raphael Assunção. The pairing first met at UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields in October 2013, when Assunção won a close bout via split decision.
At the weigh-ins, Hendricks missed weight by a quarter of a pound, weighing in at 171.25 lbs. He was not given a second attempt to make the weight because the new early weigh in procedures set a 10:00 a.m cut off time and Hendricks weighed in at the last possible moment. As a result, he was fined 20% of his fight purse, which will go to Gastelum.
09 Jul - Updated fight card & background
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