Diaz vs McGregor 2: UFC 202 Live Streaming Fight
UFC 202: Diaz vs McGregor 2 is an event upcoming mixed martial arts produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which will take place on August 20, 2016 to T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The event is expected to be led by the welterweight rematch between the winner of The Ultimate Fighter 5 and former title challenger Nate Diaz lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor UFC.
The match previously met earlier this year at UFC 196. McGregor was expected to challenge UFC lightweight champion then Rafael dos Anjos, but dos Anjos retired due to a broken foot just 11 days before the event. Diaz finally replaced him and the fight moved to the welterweight division. Diaz won the fight via rear-naked choke in the second round. Their rematch was originally expected to take place at UFC 200, but everything changed in mid-April, as a disagreement between McGregor and the UFC — with regard to its program of media — led to his expulsion from the event and then Nate Diaz also he retired.
Holm vs Shevchenko: a fight between former heavyweight championship challengers UFC Light Anthony Johnson and Glover Teixeira to serve as the co-main event of UFC on Fox expected. However, Johnson took a month before the event to attend to personal matters. In turn, elected officials promotional Teixeira to pull the card and the couple remained intact and rescheduled to take place in this event.
Dong Hyun Kim was expected to meet Neil Magny in the event. However, Kim withdrew due to injury, on July 12 and was replaced by Lorenz Larkin.
A lightweight bout between Al Iaquinta and former welterweight title challenger Thiago Alves briefly linked to this event is now expected to be contested later this year at UFC 205.
A welterweight contest between former WEC champion welterweight and former UFC interim welterweight champion Carlos Condit and Demian Maia, a former challenger Middleweight Championship UFC was scheduled to take place in this event, but moved one week later to head a FOX event already scheduled.
Sultan Aliev was expected to face Hyun Gyu Lim in the event. However, Aliev withdrew from the fight in early August citing a wrist injury. Lim will now face promotional newcomer Mike Perry.
On August 5, Sean Strickland pulled out of his scheduled bout against Tim Means due to a knee injury. He was replaced by newcomer promotional Sabah Homasi.
The Ultimate Fighter: China Ning Guangyou winner tested positive for clenbuterol from a sample taken out of competition on May 19, but found that USADA has ingested the substance without fault or negligence. They reviewed the evidence in the case — the whereabouts of Guangyou, dietary habits and laboratory reports showing “the very low per billion concentrations” of the substance — and determined that most likely came from contaminated meat, as countries like Mexico and China are at high risk of meat contaminated with the substance. Guangyou not face a suspension. It was expected to face Marlon Vera in this case, but because of this incident the fight was postponed a week to UFC on Fox: Maia vs Condit.
