The Ultimate Fighting Championship officially announced Thursday that UFC Fight Night 129 has a new main event, as Demian Maia and Kamaru Usman have been slated to compete in a welterweight scrap on May 19 at Movistar Arena in Santiago, Chile.
The card’s initial main event was a light heavyweight bout between former 205-pound champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Volkan Oezdemir. The matchup was pulled from the UFC’s May 19 trip to Chile due to ongoing legal issues for Oezdemir, who is facing a third-degree felony battery charge for allegedly knocking a man unconscious outside a Florida bar.
@demianmaia vs @USMAN84kg será la pelea estelar de #UFCChile el 19 de Mayo en la @movistararena‼ https://t.co/nrKM484FEk
— UFC Español (@UFCEspanol) April 26, 2018
Los esperamos ahí. Boletos en @puntoticket pic.twitter.com/Yr5mQk5RzU