UFC on Fox: Demetrious Johnson vs. Joseph Benavidez II (ou UFC on Fox 9) foi um evento de artes marciais mistas promovido pelo Ultimate Fighting Championship, em evento que foi realizado na cidade de Sacramento, no estado da Califórnia.[1] O evento foi transmitido na Fox dos Estados Unidos.
Background
O evento era esperado para contar com a luta pelo Cinturão Peso Leve do UFC entre Anthony Pettis e o canadense TJ Grant, mas como Grant havia sofrido uma lesão recente, a organização aguardava um aval médico para liberar o canadense para lutar.[2] No entanto, no dia 17 de setembro foi confirmado que Grant não recebeu a sua liberação médica. Para substituir, o UFC chamou o norte-americano Josh Thomson.[3] Porém, em 11 de Novembro, Pettis anunciou que sofreu outra lesão no joelho e teria que se retirar da luta. Então, para o evento principal, foi movida do The Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale a luta pelo Cinturão Peso Mosca do UFC entre Demetrious Johnson e Joseph Benavidez.[4]
Os lutadores top da categoria dos galos Urijah Faber e Michael McDonald se enfrentaram neste evento, no co evento principal.
O peso mosca americano Ian McCall estava escalado para enfrentar o estreante na divisão dos moscas Scott Jorgensen, mas uma lesão o forçou a ser retirado do card, sem substituído por John Dodson.[5] Porém, Dodson também se lesionou e deu lugar ao ex-Campeão Peso Galo do Bellator Zach Makovsky.[6]
Jamie Varner era esperado para enfrentar Pat Healy no evento, porém, Varner se lesionou e foi substituído por Bobby Green.[7]
Kelvin Gastelum era esperado para enfrentar Court McGee no evento, porém, uma lesão tirou Gastelum do evento e a organização anunciou Ryan LaFlare como substituto.[8]
O ex-desafiante ao cinturão dos moscas John Moraga, estava escalado para enfrentar Darren Uyenoyama no evento, mas uma lesão o forçou a se retirar do evento, sendo substituído pelo estreante Alptekin "Alp" Ozkilic.[9]
Matt Brown era esperado para enfrentar Carlos Condit no card principal, porém foi forçado a se retirar do evento por conta de uma lesão nas costas.[10] No dia seguinte, Condit confirmou que esperaria para realizar a luta com Brown e se retiraria do card.[11] Com isso, a luta entre Joe Lauzon e Mac Danzig foi mandada para o card principal.[10]
UFN 1 • UFN 2 • UFN 3 • UFN 4 • UFN 5 • UFN 6 • Ortiz vs. Shamrock 3 • Sanchez vs. Riggs • Evans vs. Salmon • Stevenson vs. Guillard • Stout vs. Fisher • Thomas vs. Florian • Swick vs. Burkman • Florian vs. Lauzon • Silva vs. Irvin • Diaz vs. Neer • Fight for the Troops • Lauzon vs. Stephens • Condit vs. Kampmann • Diaz vs. Guilard • Maynard vs. Diaz • Florian vs. Gomi • Marquardt vs. Palhares • Fight for the Troops 2 • Nogueira vs. Davis • Shields vs. Ellenberger
UFC Live/UFC on Versus
Vera vs. Jones • Jones vs. Matyushenko • Sanchez vs. Kampmann • Kongo vs. Barry • Hardy vs. Lytle • Cruz vs. Johnson
UFC on Fox
Velasquez vs. Dos Santos • Evans vs. Davis • Diaz vs. Miller • Shogun vs. Vera • Henderson vs. Diaz • Johnson vs. Dodson • Henderson vs. Melendez • Johnson vs. Moraga • Johnson vs. Benavidez II • Henderson vs. Thomson • Werdum vs. Browne • Lawler vs. Brown • dos Santos vs. Miocic • Gustafsson vs. Johnson • Machida vs. Rockhold • Dillashaw vs. Barão II • dos Anjos vs. Cerrone II • Johnson vs. Bader • Teixeira vs. Evans • Holm vs. Shevchenko • Maia vs. Condit • VanZant vs. Waterson • Shevchenko vs. Peña • Johnson vs. Reis • Weidman vs. Gastelum • Lawler vs. dos Anjos • Jacaré vs. Brunson II • Emmett vs. Stephens • Poirier vs. Gaethje • Alvarez vs. Poirier II • Lee vs. Iaquinta II
UFC on FX
Guillard vs. Miller • Alves vs. Kampmann • Johnson vs. McCall • Maynard vs. Guida • Browne vs. Pezão • Sotiropoulos vs. Pearson • Belfort vs. Bisping • Belfort vs. Rockhold
UFC on Fuel TV
Sanchez vs. Ellenberger • Gustafsson vs. Silva • Korean Zombie vs. Poirier • Muñoz vs. Weidman • Struve vs. Miocic • Franklin vs. Le • Barão vs. McDonald • Silva vs. Stann • Mousasi vs. Latifi • Nogueira vs. Werdum
UFC Fight Night (on Fox Sports, Fight Pass)
Shogun vs. Sonnen • Condit vs. Kampmann II • Teixeira vs. Bader • Maia vs. Shields • Machida vs. Muñoz • Fight for the Troops 3 • Belfort vs. Henderson II • Hunt vs. Pezão • Saffiedine vs. Lim • Rockhold vs. Philippou • Machida vs. Mousasi • Kim vs. Hathaway • Gustafsson vs. Manuwa • Shogun vs. Henderson II • Nogueira vs. Nelson • Bisping vs. Kennedy • Brown vs. Silva • Muñoz vs. Mousasi • Miocic vs. Maldonado • Henderson vs. Khabilov • Te-Huna vs. Marquardt • Swanson vs. Stephens • Cerrone vs. Miller • McGregor vs. Brandão • Bader vs. St. Preux • Bisping vs. Le • Henderson vs. dos Anjos • Jacaré vs. Mousasi II • Pezão vs. Arlovski II • Hunt vs. Nelson • Nelson vs. Story • MacDonald vs. Saffiedine • Rockhold vs. Bisping • Shogun vs. St. Preux • Edgar vs. Swanson • Machida vs. Dollaway • McGregor vs. Siver • Henderson vs. Thatch • Pezão vs. Mir • Maia vs. LaFlare • Mendes vs. Lamas • Gonzaga vs. Cro Cop 2 • Miocic vs. Hunt • Edgar vs. Faber • Condit vs. Alves • Boetsch vs. Henderson • Jędrzejczyk vs. Penne • Machida vs. Romero • Mir vs. Duffee • Bisping vs. Leites • Teixeira vs. St. Preux • Holloway vs. Oliveira • Nelson vs. Barnett • Holohan vs. Smolka • Belfort vs. Henderson III • TUF América Latina 2 Finale • Henderson vs. Masvidal • Namajunas vs. VanZant • Dillashaw vs. Cruz • UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson • Cowboy vs. Cowboy • Silva vs. Bisping • Hunt vs. Mir • Rothwell vs. dos Santos • Overeem vs. Arlovski • Almeida vs. Garbrandt • MacDonald vs. Thompson • dos Anjos vs. Alvarez • McDonald vs. Lineker • Rodríguez vs. Caceres • Arlovski vs. Barnett • Poirier vs. Johnson • Cyborg vs. Lansberg • Lineker vs. Dodson • Lamas vs. Penn • dos Anjos vs. Ferguson • Mousasi vs. Hall 2 • Bader vs. Nogueira 2 • Whittaker vs. Brunson • Lewis vs. Abdurakhimov • Rodríguez vs. Penn • Bermudez vs. Korean Zombie • Lewis vs. Browne • Belfort vs. Gastelum • Manuwa vs. Anderson • Swanson vs. Lobov • Gustafsson vs. Teixeira • Lewis vs. Hunt • Holm vs. Correia • Chiesa vs. Lee • Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio • Pettis vs. Moreno • Volkov vs. Struve • Rockhold vs. Branch • Saint Preux vs. Okami • Cowboy vs. Till • Brunson vs. Machida • Poirier vs. Pettis • Werdum vs. Tybura • Bisping vs. Gastelum • Swanson vs. Ortega • Stephens vs. Choi • Machida vs. Anders • Cowboy vs. Medeiros • Werdum vs. Volkov • Barboza vs. Lee • Maia vs. Usman • Thompson vs. Till • Rivera vs. Moraes • Cowboy vs. Edwards • dos Santos vs. Ivanov • Shogun vs. Smith • Gaethje vs. Vick • Hunt vs. Oliynyk • Santos vs. Anders • Volkan vs. Smith • Korean Zombie vs. Rodríguez • Magny vs. Ponzinibbio • Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2 • dos Santos vs. Tuivasa
UFC on ESPN
Ngannou vs. Velasquez • Barboza vs. Gaethje • Ngannou vs. dos Santos • dos Anjos vs. Edwards • Covington vs. Lawler • Reyes vs. Weidman • Overeem vs. Rozenstruik • Rodriguez vs. Waterson • The Korean Zombie vs. Ige • Makhachev vs. Moisés • Sandhagen vs. Dillashaw • Hall vs. Strickland • Cannonier vs. Gastelum • Barboza vs. Chikadze • Font vs. Aldo • Kattar vs. Chikadze • Blaydes vs. Daukaus • Luque vs. Muhammad 2 • Font vs. Vera • Błachowicz vs. Rakić • Kattar vs. Emmett • Tsarukyan vs. Gamrot • dos Anjos vs. Fiziev • Santos vs. Hill • Vera vs. Cruz • Thompson vs. Holland • Vera vs. Sandhagen • Holloway vs. Allen • Song vs. Simón • Kara-France vs. Albazi • Vettori vs. Cannonier • Strickland vs. Magomedov • Holm vs. Bueno Silva • Sandhagen vs. Font • Luque vs. dos Anjos • Dariush vs. Tsarukyan
UFC Fight Night (on ESPN+)
Cejudo vs. Dillashaw • Assunção vs. Moraes II • Blachowicz vs. Santos • Lewis vs. dos Santos • Till vs. Masvidal • Thompson vs. Pettis • Overeem vs. Oleinik • Jacaré vs. Hermansson • Iaquinta vs. Cowboy • dos Anjos vs. Lee • Gustafsson vs. Smith • Moicano vs. Korean Zombie • de Randamie vs. Ladd • Shevchenko vs. Carmouche 2 • Andrade vs. Zhang • Cowboy vs. Gaethje • Rodríguez vs. Stephens • Hermansson vs. Cannonier • Joanna vs. Waterson • Maia vs. Askren • Zabit vs. Kattar • Błachowicz vs. Jacaré • Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie • Blaydes vs. dos Santos • Anderson vs. Błachowicz 2 • Felder vs. Hooker • Benavidez vs. Figueiredo • Lee vs. Oliveira • Woodley vs. Edwards • Overeem vs. Harris • Smith vs. Teixeira • Hermansson vs. Weidman • Smith vs. Teixeira • Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2 • Brunson vs. Shahbazyan • Lewis vs. Oleinik • Smith vs. Rakić • Overeem vs. Sakai • Waterson vs. Hill • Covington vs. Woodley • Moraes vs. Sandhagen • Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie • Hall vs. Silva • Felder vs. dos Anjos • Thompson vs. Neal • Overeem vs. Volkov • Blaydes vs. Lewis • Rozenstruik vs. Gane • Edwards vs. Muhammad • Font vs. Garbrandt • Rozenstruik vs. Sakai • Gane vs. Volkov • Brunson vs. Till • Smith vs. Spann • Santos vs. Walker • Dern vs. Rodriguez • Ladd vs. Dumont • Costa vs. Vettori • Holloway vs. Rodríguez • Vieira vs. Tate • Lewis vs. Daukaus • Hermansson vs. Strickland • Walker vs. Hill • Makhachev vs. Green • Santos vs. Ankalaev • Volkov vs. Aspinall • Lemos vs. Andrade • Holm vs. Vieira • Volkov vs. Rozenstruik • Blaydes vs. Aspinall • Gane vs. Tuivasa • Sandhagen vs. Song • Dern vs. Yan • Grasso vs. Araújo • Kattar vs. Allen • Rodriguez vs. Lemos • Nzechukwu vs. Cuțelaba • Cannonier vs. Strickland • Strickland vs. Imavov • Lewis vs. Spivak • Andrade vs. Blanchfield • Muniz vs. Allen • Yan vs. Dvalishvili • Holloway vs. Allen • Pavlovich vs. Blaydes • Dern vs. Hill • Aspinall vs. Tybura • Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie • Gane vs. Spivak • Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2 • Fiziev vs. Gamrot • Dawson vs. Green • Yusuff vs. Barboza • Almeida vs. Lewis • Allen vs. Craig • Song vs. Gutiérrez • Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 • Dolidze vs. Imavov • Hermansson vs. Pyfer • 237 • 238 • 239Barboza x Murphy
UFC on ABC
Holloway vs. Kattar • Vettori vs. Holland • Ortega vs. Rodríguez • Rozenstruik vs. Almeida • Emmett vs. Topuria