UFC 173: Barão vs. Dillashaw foi um evento de artes marciais mistas promovido pelo Ultimate Fighting Championship, ocorrido em 02014-05-24 24 de maio de 2014 no MGM Grand Garden Arena, em Las Vegas, nos Estados Unidos.
Background
O evento principal iria ser a disputa pelo Cinturão Peso Médio do UFC entre o campeão Chris Weidman e o desafiante Vitor Belfort. Porém, cerca de três meses antes da luta, a Comissão Atlética do Estado de Nevada (NSAC) baniu o TRT (Tratamento de Reposição de Testosterona), do qual Belfort era adepto.[1] Como o tempo para a adaptação sem a TRT era longo, Belfort saiu da luta e em seu lugar foi colocado o ex-Campeão Meio Pesado do UFC Lyoto Machida.[2] Porém, Weidman se lesionou e a luta foi movida para o UFC 175.[3] Em 28 de Março de 2014, o presidente do UFC Dana White confirmou que o brasileiro Renan Barão irá defender o Cinturão Peso Galo do UFC contra o americano TJ Dillashaw na luta principal do evento.[4]
O co-evento principal seria entre os técnicos do The Ultimate Fighter: Brasil 3 Wanderlei Silva e Chael Sonnen.[5] Porém, a luta foi movida para 31 de maio de 2014 em um evento UFC Fight Night.[6] O co-evento principal então seria a luta entre os pesados Junior dos Santos e Stipe Miocic.[7] Porém, essa luta foi movida para ser o evento principal do UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Miocic.
Dillashaw enfrentaria Takeya Mizugaki no card, como foi movido para a luta pelo cinturão foi substituído por Francisco Rivera.
Era esperado que Yves Edwards e Piotr Hallmann se enfrentassem no evento, porém, a luta foi movida para o UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Khabilov.[8]
Kyung Ho Kang enfrentaria Chris Holdsworth no evento, porém, uma lesão o fez sair da luta e ser substituído por Chico Camus.
Danny Mitchell iria enfrentar Li Jingliang no evento, mas uma lesão o forçou a sair da luta, sendo substituído por David Michaud.
↑«Comissão atlética de Nevada bane isenção para TRT em lutas no estado». combate.com. 27 de Fevereiro de 2014
↑«Belfort deixa o UFC 173, e Lyoto pega Weidman pelo cinturão dos médios». combate.com. 28 de Fevereiro de 2014
↑Combate.com. 24 de Março de 2014 http://sportv.globo.com/site/combate/noticia/2014/03/weidman-sofre-lesao-e-luta-contra-lyoto-e-adiada-para-julho-no-ufc-175.htmlEm falta ou vazio |título= (ajuda)
↑Combate.com. 28 de Março de 2014 http://sportv.globo.com/site/combate/noticia/2014/03/renan-barao-enfrenta-tj-dillashaw-na-luta-principal-do-ufc-173-em-vegas.htmlEm falta ou vazio |título= (ajuda)
↑«Confirmado: Wanderlei Silva x Chael Sonnen será no UFC 173, em maio». combate.com. 3 de Fevereiro de 2014
↑«UFC muda de ideia, e luta entre Wanderlei e Sonnen será no Brasil». combate.com. 13 de Fevereiro de 2014
↑«Júnior Cigano volta ao octógono contra Stipe Miocic no UFC 173». combate.com. 4 de Fevereiro de 2014
↑«Yves Edwards vs. Piotr Hallmann pushed back from UFC 173 to UFC Fight Night 43». mmajunkie.com. 1 de Abril de 2014
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UFC Live/UFC on Versus
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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