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Welterweights Maia, LaFlare to meet on UFC card in Rio de Janeiro

By ADAM HILL LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
March 20, 2015 - 4:31 pm
 
Rory MacDonald, left, hits Demian Maia during UFC 170 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Saturday night, Feb. 22, 2014. (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Former middleweight title challenger Demian Maia will fight Ryan LaFlare in the welterweight main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card Saturday in Rio de Janeiro.

LaFlare is 11-0 as a professional, including four straight wins since signing with the UFC in 2013. All four victories have come by decision.

Also on the card, which airs live on Fox Sports 1 (Cable 329) at 7 p.m., welterweight Josh Koscheck will fight Erick Silva. Koscheck, 37, enters the final fight on his contract just three weeks after suffering a submission loss to Jake Ellenberger on Feb. 28 in Los Angeles.

The preliminary card airs on Fox Sports 2 (Cable 319) at 5 p.m.

In other news, the UFC announced Friday that women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will defend her belt against undefeated Brazilian Bethe Correia on Aug. 1 in Rio de Janeiro in the main event of UFC 190.

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