The Ultimate Fighting Championship has booked a
headliner for a show five months from now.

The UFC will be returning to Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 4 for a

UFC Fight Night
offering. The event, which will likely be held
inside of the Ibirapuera Gymnasium, will feature a heavyweight main
attraction of Curtis
Blaydes
(17-4, 1 NC) vs. Jailton
Almeida
(19-2). This fight and location were first reported by

MMA Junkie
on Thursday, and it was subsequently confirmed by

other outlets
. This would be the UFC’s first jaunt to the
largest city in Brazil since UFC Fight Night 164 in November
2019.

Elevation Fight Team product Blaydes last competed in April, where
he squared off against Sergei
Pavlovich
in a likely title eliminator match. Blaydes suffered
a first-round knockout at the hands of the Russian, thereby halting
a three-fight win streak Blaydes had amassed. In late 2021, Blaydes
topped Jairzinho
Rozenstruik
on the scorecards, and “Razor” had a successful
2022 campaign by earning knockouts of Chris
Daukaus
and Tom
Aspinall
– although the latter came from a 15-second knee
injury. The perennial contender has never lost a fight any way
other than knockout, while earning a while 71% of his victories in
that fashion.

Since his signing on the 2021 season of Dana White’s Contender Series, the term
“meteoric rise” certainly applies to Brazil’s Almeida. “Malhadinho”
has rattled off five straight finishes with the organization since
February 2022, including two finishes in 2023 already. Almeida
started the year off strong by putting Shamil
Abdurakhimov
away with strikes in the second round, and he
returned in May to throttle Rozenstruik with a first-round
rear-naked choke. As a pro, all 19 of Almeida’s wins have come
inside the distance.





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Curtis Blaydes vs. Jailton Almeida to Headline UFC Sao Paulo Event on Nov. 4