| UFC 176: Aldo vs. Mendes II | ||||
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 The poster for UFC 176: Aldo vs. Mendes II | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | August 2, 2014 (cancelled) | |||
| Venue | Staples Center | |||
| City | Los Angeles,California | |||
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UFC 176: Aldo vs. Mendes II was a plannedmixed martial arts event that was scheduled to be held by theUltimate Fighting Championship on August 2, 2014, atStaples Center inLos Angeles,California.[1]
The event was expected to be headlined by a UFC Featherweight Championship rematch between at the time championJosé Aldo and challengerChad Mendes.[1] Their first fight atUFC 142 ended in a first round KO victory in favor of Aldo.[2] However, on July 2, Aldo pulled out of the fight due to an injury suffered in training.[3]
Subsequent to Aldo's injury, the event was cancelled on July 8, when the UFC announced they were unable to replace the original main event fight and with less than a month before the event, the decision was made to postpone the event – though the promotion said the numbering scheme for already scheduled pay-per-views after it will remain in consecutive order. The fights booked for this event were shifted to other upcoming cards.[4] Aldo and Mendes eventually fought atUFC 179.
This was the second time, followingUFC 151 in August 2012, that the promotion was forced to cancel an event because of a lack of a high profile fight to fill a main event spot.[5]
| Fight card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Featherweight | José Aldo (c) | vs. | Chad Mendes | [a] | |||
| Middleweight | Ronaldo Souza | vs. | Gegard Mousasi | [b] | |||
| Lightweight | Gray Maynard | vs. | Fabrício Camões | [c] | |||
| Women's Bantamweight | Bethe Correia | vs. | Shayna Baszler | [d] | |||
| Flyweight | Jussier Formiga | vs. | Zach Makovsky | [e] | |||
| Lightweight | James Vick | vs. | Valmir Lazaro | [f] | |||
| Middleweight | Lorenz Larkin | vs. | Derek Brunson | [g] | |||
| Lightweight | Bobby Green | vs. | Abel Trujillo | [h] | |||
| Lightweight | Tony Ferguson | vs. | Danny Castillo | [i] | |||
| Lightweight | Beneil Dariush | vs. | Anthony Rocco Martin | [j] | |||
| Welterweight | Alex Garcia | vs. | Matt Dwyer | ||||
The event was fictionalized in the 2012 filmHere Comes the Boom. In the film it took place theMGM Grand inLas Vegas. The main event in the film wasJunior Dos Santos againstShane Carwin. The film's main character Scott Voss, played byKevin James, fights fictional fighter Ken "The Executioner" Dietric, played by former UFC fighterKrzysztof Soszynski.UFC Hall of FamerBas Rutten plays Voss's trainer Niko. The film also includes cameos fromJoe Rogan,Mike Goldberg,Chael Sonnen,Brian Stann,Herb Dean,Wanderlei Silva,Jacob "Stitch" Duran, andBruce Buffer all playing themselves.
