Finally, this fight is announced. This fight has been rumored for months now and now all the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed to make it official. Antônio Rogério Nogueira, the twin brother of Heavyweight contender Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, will be making his UFC debut against Luiz Cane at UFC 106 on November 21st. This fight should strengthen the UFC 106 fight card that was looking pretty weak after the Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin fight got moved to UFC 108 after Lesnar had to miss some of his training camp due to an “illness”. The full fight card is below
Nogueira, who is 17-3, has spent the majority of his professional career fighting across the Pacific in Japan. He has notable wins over Dan Henderson and two against the current Strikeforce Heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem. He is riding a five fight winning streak coming into this fight with Cane and should strengthen the already deep UFC Light Heavyweight division.
Luiz Cane on the other hand is an UFC veteran who is slowly climbing his way into the Light Heavyweight number one contender picture. He is 10-1(1), with his only loss coming by disqualification for kneeing a downed opponent in the head during his UFC debut against James Irvin. This should be an interesting fight in terms of a style match up which will put Nogueira’s BJJ against Cane’s stand up.
