Two more bouts have been added to the UFC first trip to Brazil in 2015.
Sam Alvey (24-6) is set to meet Brazil’s Cezar Ferreira (8-3) in a middleweight bout, whilst lightweights Rustam Khabilov (17-2) and Adriano Martins (26-7) will also collide.
UFC Fight Night 61 takes place on Sunday, Feb. 22,at Gigantinho Gymnasium in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The main card is expected to air on FOX Sports 1 following prelims on FOX Sports 1(BT Sport in the UK) and UFC Fight Pass. Brazil’s Glover Teixeira (22-4), will meet former champion Rashad Evans (19-3-1) in the scheduled headliner.
Alvey, a former MFC middleweight champion, made his UFC debut earlier this year dropping a unanimous decision to Brit Tom Watson at UFC Fight Night 47 in Maine. He rebounded in November, though, with a first-round knockout of Dylan Andrews in Andrews’ home country of Australia for his first UFC win.
Ferreira, the middleweight winner of the first season of “The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil,” won his first three UFC bouts before suffering a shock 39-second knockout loss to C.B. Dollaway in March in front of his own home fans in Brazil. He later bounced back in June at UFC Fight Night 44 with a decision victory over Andrew Craig in Texas.
Rustam Khabilov had his six-fight winning streak snapped in June when he was submitted in the fourth round by Benson Henderson in the main event of UFC Fight Night 42. It was the first stoppage loss of his career and before that, he won his first three fights in the UFC, including a “Fight of the Night” decision over Jorge Masvidal in November 2013.
Martins bounced back in July at the TUF 19 Finale with a “Performance of the Night” knockout of Juan Puig. That put him back in the win column after a head kick knockout loss to Donald Cerrone at UFC on FOX 10 in January, a loss that saw a six-fight winning streak snapped.
So far, the UFC Fight Night 61 card looks like this:
Rashad Evans vs. Glover Teixeira
Sam Alvey vs. Cezar Ferreira
Rustam Khabilov vs. Adriano Martins
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