| UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. Nogueira 2 | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. Nogueira 2 | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | November 19, 2016 (2016-11-19) | |||
| Venue | Ginásio do Ibirapuera | |||
| City | São Paulo,Brazil | |||
| Attendance | 9,028[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Bader vs. Nogueira 2 (also known asUFC Fight Night 100) was amixed martial arts event produced by theUltimate Fighting Championship held on November 19, 2016, atGinásio do Ibirapuera inSão Paulo,Brazil[2]
The event was initially expected to be headlined by a light heavyweight bout between former two-timeUFC Light Heavyweight Championship challengerAlexander Gustafsson andAntônio Rogério Nogueira[2] The promotion had previously scheduled the pairing as main event on two other occasions. First in April 2012 atUFC on Fuel TV: Gustafsson vs. Silva and again in March 2014 atUFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Manuwa. In both instances Nogueira pulled out due to injury.[3][4] However on September 30, Gustafsson pulled out of the bout citing an injury of his own. In turn, he was replaced byThe Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir light heavyweight winnerRyan Bader.[5] Bader defeated Nogueira in their previous encounter six years prior atUFC 119 by unanimous decision.[6]
Michael Graves was scheduled to faceSérgio Moraes on the card. However, Graves was removed from the fight on October 3 after he was arrested on a misdemeanorbattery charge.[7] He was replaced byZak Ottow.[8]
Matheus Nicolau was expected to faceUlka Sasaki at the event. However, on November 3, Nicolau was pulled from the bout afterUSADA revealed a potential anti-doping violation from a sample taken October 13. In turn, Sasaki was pulled from the event entirely and was later rescheduled to faceWilson Reis on February 12, 2017 atUFC 208[9]
| Main Card (Fox Sports 1) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Ryan Bader | def. | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | TKO (punches) | 3 | 3:51 | |
| Bantamweight | Thomas Almeida | def. | Albert Morales | TKO (punches) | 2 | 1:37 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Cláudia Gadelha | def. | Cortney Casey | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Krzysztof Jotko | def. | Thales Leites | Decision (unanimous) (29–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Welterweight | Kamaru Usman | def. | Warlley Alves | Decision (unanimous) (29–27, 30–26, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Welterweight | Sérgio Moraes | def. | Zak Ottow | Decision (split) (28–29, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1) | |||||||
| Middleweight | Cezar Ferreira | def. | Jack Hermansson | Submission (arm-triangle choke) | 2 | 2:11 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Gadzhimurad Antigulov | def. | Marcos Rogério de Lima | Submission (guillotine choke) | 1 | 1:07 | |
| Bantamweight | Johnny Eduardo | def. | Manny Gamburyan | TKO (punches) | 2 | 0:46 | |
| Heavyweight | Luis Henrique | def. | Christian Colombo | Submission (guillotine choke) | 3 | 2:12 | |
| Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
| Bantamweight | Pedro Munhoz | def. | Justin Scoggins | Submission (guillotine choke) | 2 | 1:55 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Darren Stewart | vs. | Francimar Barroso | No Contest (inadvertent headbutt) | 1 | 1:34 | [a] |
The following fighters were awarded $50,000 bonuses:[12]
