UFC 198 will be coming from the 40,000 seat Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil and will be headlined by a title fight as Fabricio Werdum will defend the UFC heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic.
The fight booking was officially announced by the UFC on Friday.
Werdum (20-5-1) won the interim UFC heavyweight title in 2014 with a win over Mark Hunt and became the undisputed champion in June of last year when he defeated Cain Velasquez. He is currently currently on a six fight winning streak and four of those wins came by stoppage. Miocic (14-2) has won five of his last six fights and is coming off a knockout win against Andrei Arlovski in January. He has eight wins in the UFC and his last three victories have come by stoppage.
The current UFC 198: Werdum vs. Miocic fight card is below.
Fabricio Werdum (20-5-1) vs. Stipe Miocic (14-2)
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (22-4, 1NC) vs. Vitor Belfort (25-11)
Demian Maia (22-6) vs. Matt Brown (20-13)
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (21-7) vs. Patrick Cummins (8-3)
Warlley Alves (10-0) vs. Bryan Barberena (11-3)
Nate Marquardt (34-15-2) vs. Thiago Santos (12-3)
Evan Dunham (17-6) vs. Leonardo Santos (15-3-1)
Yancy Medeiros (12-3) vs. Francisco Trinaldo (19-4)
Sergio Moraes (10-2) vs. Kamaru Usman (7-1)