| UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | February 4, 2017 (2017-02-04) | |||
| Venue | Toyota Center | |||
| City | Houston,Texas | |||
| Attendance | 8,119[1] | |||
| Total gate | $611,133[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie (also known asUFC Fight Night 104) was amixed martial arts event held by theUltimate Fighting Championship on February 4, 2017, at theToyota Center inHouston,Texas.[2]
A featherweight bout betweenDennis Bermudez and formerUFC Featherweight Championship challengerChan Sung Jung served as the event headliner.[3] This was Jung's first bout since August 2013, as he returned frommilitary service.
A lightweight bout betweenEvan Dunham andAbel Trujillo was originally booked forUFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson. However, Trujillo pulled out due to an undisclosed injury.[4] The fight was later rescheduled for this event.[5]
A women's strawweight bout betweenJéssica Andrade andInvicta FC Strawweight ChampionAngela Hill was briefly linked toUFC 207.[6] However the fight never materialized for that event because of a rule in the UFC's anti-doping policy with USADA.[7] Subsequently, Andrade was removed from that card with the pairing left intact and rescheduled to take place at this event.[8]
On January 19, the card suffered multiple changes due to injury:Evan Dunham andJohnny Case pulled out of their respective fights againstAbel Trujillo andJames Vick. Subsequently, Trujillo and Vick were booked to face each other.[9] Also,Sheldon Westcott was forced to withdraw from his bout againstAlex Morono at the event.[10] He was replaced byNiko Price.[11]
Jan Błachowicz was expected to face former interimUFC Light Heavyweight Championship challengerOvince Saint Preux, but pulled out on January 21 due to injury and was replaced by promotional newcomerVolkan Oezdemir.[12]
Justin Ledet was expected to face promotional newcomer Dmitry Sosnovskiy at the event. However, Ledet pulled out of the fight on January 26 allegedly due to an undisclosed injury. Promotion officials elected to remove Sosnovskiy from the card and he will be rescheduled for another event.[13][14]
At the weigh-ins,Bec Rawlings came in at 117.5 lb, 1.5 lb over the women's strawweight limit of 116 lb. As a result, Rawlings was fined 20% of her purse, which went toTecia Torres and the bout proceeded as scheduled at catchweight.[15]
| Main Card (Fox Sports 1) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Featherweight | Chan Sung Jung | def. | Dennis Bermudez | KO (punch) | 1 | 2:49 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Felice Herrig | def. | Alexa Grasso | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | James Vick | def. | Abel Trujillo | Submission (D'Arce choke) | 3 | 0:49 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Volkan Oezdemir | def. | Ovince Saint Preux | Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Marcel Fortuna | def. | Anthony Hamilton | KO (punch) | 1 | 3:10 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Jéssica Andrade | def. | Angela Hill | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1) | |||||||
| Heavyweight | Curtis Blaydes | vs. | Adam Milstead | No Contest (overturned) | 2 | 0:59 | [a] |
| Featherweight | Chas Skelly | def. | Chris Gruetzemacher | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 2 | 2:01 | |
| Bantamweight | Ricardo Ramos | def. | Michinori Tanaka | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Catchweight (117.5 lb) | Tecia Torres | def. | Bec Rawlings | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
| Welterweight | Niko Price | vs. | Alex Morono | No Contest (overturned) | 2 | 5:00 | [b] |
| Light Heavyweight | Khalil Rountree Jr. | def. | Daniel Jolly | KO (knee) | 1 | 0:52 | |
The following fighters were awarded $50,000 bonuses:[17]
Niko Price, Curtis Blaydes and Abel Trujillo all tested positive formarijuana in in-competition drug tests. All three have been suspended 90 days and fined $1,000 by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), sources said. Despite their test failures for marijuana, none are facing any sanctions from USADA, as it only suspends fighters for cannabis if their drug test comes back with more than 150 ng/ml of the substance’s metabolites. Victories by Price and Blaydes have been overturned to no contests.[18]
On April 5, it was announced that Ledet accepted a four-month USADA's sanction for an anti-doping policy violation following an out-of-competition test conducted on January 12. He tested positive for 5α-androst-1-ene-3α-ol-17-one, a metabolite of1-testosterone and1-androstenedione. He provided USADA with an open container of a dietary supplement product he was using at the time of the relevant sample collection, which he had also declared on his sample collection paperwork and researched before using. The testing conclusively confirmed that the supplement Ledet was using at the time of his positive test was contaminated with 1-androstenedione. The period of ineligibility began on February 1, 2017, the date on which he was provisionally suspended from competition.[19]
