[Event] UFC Fight Night 99 - Mousasi vs. Hall 2 - Nov 19

Dent · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:01 pm

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UFC Fight Night 99: Mousasi vs. Hall 2 is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will be held on November 19, 2016 at The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Official fight card

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Middleweight Gegard Mousasi vs. Uriah Hall
Lightweight Ross Pearson vs. Stevie Ray
Heavyweight Timothy Johnson vs. Alexander Volkov
Featherweight Artem Lobov vs. Teruto Ishihara

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Middleweight Magnus Cedenblad vs. Jack Marshman
Flyweight Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Ali Bagautinov
Lightweight Kevin Lee vs. Magomed Mustafaev
Women's Strawweight Anna Elmose vs. Amanda Cooper
Heavyweight Justin Ledet vs. Mark Godbeer
Catchweight (172.8 lbs) Zak Cummings vs. Alexander Yakovlev
Women's Bantamweight Marion Reneau vs. Milana Dudieva
Bantamweight Brett Johns vs. Kwan Ho Kwak
Welterweight Charlie Ward vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan

Background

The event will be the second that the organization hosted in Northern Ireland, with the first being UFC 72 in June 2007.

A welterweight bout between ranked contenders Dong Hyun Kim and Gunnar Nelson was expected to serve as the headlined of the event. However on October 21, it was announced that Nelson pulled out due to an injury and the fight was off. Kim is expected to be rescheduled for a future event. In turn, a middleweight rematch between former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Gegard Mousasi and Uriah Hall was announced as the new headliner. The pairing met previously in September 2015 at UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs. Nelson with Hall taking the victory via second round highlight reel TKO in what was considered a huge upset.

A lightweight bout between Ross Pearson and James Krause was originally booked for The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia Finale. However, Krause pulled out due to undisclosed reasons. The fight was later rescheduled for this event and was expected to serve as the co-main event. Subsequently on October 26, Krause pulled out of the fight citing a torn hamstring. He was then replaced by Stevie Ray.

As a result of the cancellation of UFC Fight Night: Lamas vs. Penn, a flyweight bout between Kyoji Horiguchi and Ali Bagautinov was rescheduled for this event.

At the weigh-ins, Zak Cummings came in at 172.8 lbs, nearly two pounds over the welterweight limit of 171 lbs. As a result, Cummings was fined 20% of his purse, which went to his opponent Alexander Yakovlev and the bout will proceed as scheduled at a catchweight.

A flyweight bout between Ian McCall and Neil Seery was scheduled for the event. However, as Seery was weighing in for the event, it was announced that McCall had to pull out of the fight after becoming ill due the effects of his weight cut and the bout was scrapped.

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[Event] UFC Fight Night 99 - Mousasi vs. Hall 2 - Nov 19

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