UFC 147 official with Silva-Sonnen, Silva-Belfort on June 23 in Riode Janeiro stadium

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    UFC 147 official with Silva-Sonnen, Silva-Belfort on June 23 in Rio de Janeiro stadium

    by Dann Stupp on Mar 26, 2012 at 12:20 pm ET
    [​IMG]As expected, two long-awaited rematches will co-headline the UFC's return to Brazil.

    Officials today announced that UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (31-4 MMA, 14-0 UFC) will rematch Chael Sonnen (27-11-1 MMA, 6-4 UFC), and "The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil" coaches Wanderlei Silva (34-11-1 MMA, 4-6 UFC) and Vitor Belfort (21-9 MMA, 10-5 UFC) also will meet again at UFC 147.

    UFC 147 takes place June 23 at Joao Havelange Stadium in Rio de Janiero. It's expected to set a new UFC record attendance.

    UFC 147's main card airs on pay-per-view, and FX and Facebook are expected to carry the prelims. It takes place the day after UFC on FX 4 in Atlantic City, N.J.

    Joao Havelange Stadium (also known as Engenhao Stadium) is the first soccer stadium to host a UFC event. It won out after UFC officials faced issues with its initially planned host site of Sao Paulo. The Rio stadium, which also hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics, currently can seat approximately 47,000 spectators. UFC officials didn't specify a seating configuration, but they expect it to break the record that Toronto's Rogers Centre set with UFC 129 (55,724) in 2011.

    UFC president Dana White mentioned the possibility of 80,000 fans attending the event during a press conference this past week. However, it's not known if that's the figure they're currently shooting for.

    "This will be the biggest sporting event of the year," White stated. "Bigger than the NFL, the NBA, you name it. UFC 147 will be the biggest. The whole world wants to see this fight between Silva and Sonnen. We are broadcast in over 150 countries in 22 languages in half a billion homes. Wherever those fans are, they are going to be watching this fight."

    Sonnen dominated reigning champ Anderson Silva for four rounds before succumbing to a last-round triangle choke at UFC 117 in 2010. Sonnen set up a rematch with a January win over Michael Bisping, and Silva since has defeated the likes of Belfort of Yushin Okami. The rematch is likely to be one of the biggest fights in MMA history.

    In addition to that title fight, Belfort and Wanderlei Silva are slated to fight at UFC 147. Belfort won the first meeting via first-round TKO back in 1998 at "UFC Brazil: Ultimate Brazil" (UFC 17.5). Their rematch coincides with the season finale of "TUF: Brazil," which is the UFC's first international edition of its long-running reality series.
     
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    A mega mega event. Great fight for the main event, an awesome co-main type fight with nostalgic and historical proportions, but it's more than all of that. It will be in the greatest and most beautiful city in the world. The atmosphere in the arena will be festive, electric, intense and unique.

    Welcome to the party. We are going to celebrate MMA.
     
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    Biggest sporting event of the year? Is Dana going crazy?
     
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    Only attendance wise.
     
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    It will be big world wide IMO. Its not going to be bigger than the olympics tho.
     
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    Or World Series,or NBA championships, or superbowl. Not even close. Doesnt Dana even realize that MMA isnt even mainstream yet?
     
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    Dana is a natural sales man. He probablly said the same thing back in the day about his aerobics classes.
     
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    World Series and Sbawl are not really world wide events like this will be.
     
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    Two long awaited rematches? I see one at most.
     
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    My guess is Anderson puts out his best effort here and the fight doesn't go the distance. He'll take chances after last time, and he'll want to hammer Sonnen in front of his countrymen. Vitor will splatter poor used-up Wanderlei.
     
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    Vitor will make their first fight look competitive.
     
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    They are more worldwide that this fight. You dont think the other countries watch the superbowl and World series? What is Dana smoking here? I see only the US, which still only considers MMA a "fringe" sport, and Brazil being widely interested.
     
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    Yeah, this card is going to be a big disappointment for sure.
     
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    I really hope Vitor decapitates Wanderlei. Can't stand that has-been loud-mouth piece of shit.
     
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    Yeah I know, I just wanted to bash WS and SB. :partie:
     
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    No, it's actually being held in Rio.:lol:
     
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