| UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson 3 | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson 3 | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | November 7, 2015 | |||
| Venue | Ginásio do Ibirapuera | |||
| City | São Paulo, Brazil | |||
| Attendance | 10,628[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson 3 (also known asUFC Fight Night 77) was amixed martial arts event held on November 7, 2015, at theGinásio do Ibirapuera inSão Paulo, Brazil.[2][3]
The event was the fourth held inSão Paulo followingUFC Ultimate Brazil (1998),UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Bisping (2013) andThe Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Finale: Miocic vs. Maldonado (2014) and the twenty-fourth overall event to be held inBrazil.
The event was headlined by a middleweight trilogy bout between longtime multi-divisional contenders and championsVitor Belfort andDan Henderson.[2] Henderson defeated Belfort in their first encounter in 2006 atPride 32 via unanimous decision. Belfort defeated Henderson in their second encounter in 2013 atUFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson 2 via first round knockout.
Tom Lawlor was expected to faceFábio Maldonado at this event. However, Lawlor was forced to pull out due to injury and was replaced byThe Ultimate Fighter 19 light heavyweight winnerCorey Anderson.[4]
On December 4, it was announced thatGleison Tibau was "provisionally suspended" by theUnited States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) due to a potential failed out-of-competition drug test.[5] On December 23, a second potential failed drug test, this time in-competition, was also announced.[6] On February 16, Tibau announced he will drop his appeal and face the minimum punishment under the new rules, which is a two-year suspension.[7] A day later, Tibau admitted he usederythropoietin out-of-competition thinking it "wouldn’t be anything" and that he thought he wasn't doing something wrong.[8] Subsequently, on February 18, USADA announced Tibau's two-year suspension retroactive to the date of the fight and his win is now overturned to a loss, per the anti-doping policy of the Comissão Atlética Brasileira de MMA (CABMMA), which regulated the bout. Thus,Abel Trujillo's loss was overturned to a win.[9]
| Main Card (Fox Sports 1) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Middleweight | Vitor Belfort | def. | Dan Henderson | KO (head kick and punches) | 1 | 2:07 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Glover Teixeira | def. | Patrick Cummins | TKO (punches) | 2 | 1:12 | |
| Bantamweight | Thomas Almeida | def. | Anthony Birchak | KO (punches) | 1 | 4:24 | |
| Lightweight | Alex Oliveira | def. | Piotr Hallmann | KO (punch) | 3 | 0:51 | |
| Lightweight | Rashid Magomedov | def. | Gilbert Burns | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Corey Anderson | def. | Fábio Maldonado | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1) | |||||||
| Lightweight | Abel Trujillo | def. | Gleison Tibau | Disqualification (overturned) | 1 | 1:45 | [a] |
| Lightweight | Johnny Case | def. | Yan Cabral | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Featherweight | Thiago Tavares | def. | Clay Guida | Submission (guillotine choke) | 1 | 0:39 | |
| Featherweight | Chas Skelly | def. | Kevin Souza | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 2 | 1:56 | |
| Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
| Welterweight | Viscardi Andrade | def. | Gasan Umalatov | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Jimmie Rivera | def. | Pedro Munhoz | Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Matheus Nicolau | def. | Bruno Korea | Submission (Japanese necktie) | 3 | 3:27 | |
The following fighters were awarded $50,000 bonuses:[12]
