| UFC 176: Aldo vs. Mendes II | ||||
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 The poster for UFC 176: Aldo vs. Mendes II | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | August 2, 2014 (cancelled) | |||
| Venue | Staples Center | |||
| City | Los Angeles, California | |||
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UFC 176: Aldo vs. Mendes II was a planned mixed martial arts event that was scheduled to be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 2, 2014, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. [1]
The event was expected to be headlined by a UFC Featherweight Championship rematch between the former champion José Aldo and challenger Chad Mendes. [1] Their first fight at UFC 142 ended in a first round KO victory in favor of Aldo. [2] However, on July 2, Aldo pulled out of the fight due to an injury suffered in training. [3]
Subsequent to Aldo's injury, the event was cancelled on July 8, when the UFC announced they were unable to replace the original main event fight and with less than a month before the event, the decision was made to postpone the event – though the promotion said the numbering scheme for already scheduled pay-per-views after it will remain in consecutive order. The fights booked for this event were shifted to other upcoming cards. [4] Aldo and Mendes eventually fought at UFC 179.
This was the second time, following UFC 151 in August 2012, that the promotion was forced to cancel an event because of a lack of a high profile fight to fill a main event spot. [5]
| Fight card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Featherweight | José Aldo (c) | vs. | Chad Mendes | [lower-alpha 1] | |||
| Middleweight | Ronaldo Souza | vs. | Gegard Mousasi | [lower-alpha 2] | |||
| Lightweight | Gray Maynard | vs. | Fabrício Camões | [lower-alpha 3] | |||
| Women's Bantamweight | Bethe Correia | vs. | Shayna Baszler | [lower-alpha 4] | |||
| Flyweight | Jussier Formiga | vs. | Zach Makovsky | [lower-alpha 5] | |||
| Lightweight | James Vick | vs. | Valmir Lazaro | [lower-alpha 6] | |||
| Middleweight | Lorenz Larkin | vs. | Derek Brunson | [lower-alpha 7] | |||
| Lightweight | Bobby Green | vs. | Abel Trujillo | [lower-alpha 8] | |||
| Lightweight | Tony Ferguson | vs. | Danny Castillo | [lower-alpha 9] | |||
| Lightweight | Beneil Dariush | vs. | Anthony Rocco Martin | [lower-alpha 10] | |||
| Welterweight | Alex Garcia | vs. | Matt Dwyer | ||||
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