The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, June 3, for UFC 212. The fifth pay-per-view offering of the year will be the sixth event held at the Jeunesse Arena, and the first since UFC 190.
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The return to Rio de Janeiro is headlined by a featherweight title-unification bout between current UFC Featherweight champion José Aldo and interim titleholder Max Holloway. The tangled web of titles in the featherweight division ends when the UFC plays host to two of the very best fighters in the sport, regardless of weight class.
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Aldo won the UFC interim featherweight title when he ran through former champ Frankie Edgar with relative ease at UFC 200. Following a series of unexpected events in the fall out of Daniel Cormier’s injury prior to his UFC 206 main event, the undisputed featherweight champ Conor McGregor was stripped of his title to make room for another interim belt. Aldo was promoted to the undisputed champion despite his 2015 defeat at the hands of McGregor. The shuffling opened up an opportunity for Holloway to fight former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis for another interim featherweight title in the main event of UFC 206 in December. Holloway went on to defeat Pettis to earn his 10th straight win and secure his much-deserved shot at the current featherweight king.
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Two of the world’s best female strawweights collide in the co-headliner of the evening, when former title challengers Claudia Gadelha and Karolina Kowalkiewicz do battle. Gadelha was a focal point in the UFC’s last trip to the HSBC Arena at UFC 190, where she was able to topple former No. 1 strawweight Jessica Aguilar. Gadelha gets another chance to shine in front of the Brazilian crowd when she welcomes Poland’s Kowalkiewicz to Brazil for the first time.
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The pay-per-view main card features a theme of sorts, as the Brazilian faithful are treated to a series of Brazil-versus-the-world match-ups. Former UFC light heavyweight champ Vitor Belfort looks to go out on a win when he takes on veteran Nate “The Great” Marquardt. Fists will fly when Brazilian prospect Paulo Borrachinha Henrique Costa clashes with middleweight striker Oluwale Bamgbose. In the main-card opener, the always exciting Erick Silva takes on the Hawaiian slugger Yancy Medeiros.
The evening’s preliminary headliner features the debut of former World Series of Fighting bantamweight champion Marlon Moraes. The Brazilian rides a 13-fight winning streak heading into his first walk to the Octagon against perennial contender Raphael Assunção.
The action kicks off with three prelim bouts on UFC 212 Fight Pass at 6:30 p.m. ET. The remaining four preliminary bouts take place on Fox Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET. Then, it’s off to pay-per-view for the main card at 10 p.m. ET. Combat Press writers Bryan Henderson and Zach Aittama break down the card in this edition of Toe-to-Toe.
