After Vitor Belfort tweeted in Portuguese that he'd be facing Chris Weidman for the middleweight title on Feb. 28 in Los Angeles, UFC president Dana White took to Instagram to clarify matters.
White jokingly referred to Belfort as "Our new head of p.r.," in making the announcement. Weidman-Belfort will be the main event with a women's bantamweight title fight between Ronda Rousey and unbeaten No. 1 contender Cat Zingano as the co-main on Feb. 28 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Weidman and Belfort were originally supposed to fight on Dec. 6 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, but Weidman broke his left hand in training and on Sept. 22 had to postpone the fight.
It turns out to be a great deal for Staples, which was to host UFC 176 on Aug. 2. That card was supposed to be headlined by a featherweight title fight between Jose Aldo and Chad Mendes, but was canceled when Aldo was injured and had to pull out. The UFC tried to reschedule, but Staples is one of the country's busiest arenas and it couldn't be worked out.
The Aldo-Mendes fight was moved to Brazil as the main event of UFC 179, which Aldo won by an impressive unanimous decision in one of 2014's best fights.
Rousey-Zingano had been expected to be the co-main event of UFC 182 on Jan. 3 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.�White told Yahoo Sports via text message that a lightweight bout between Donald Cerrone and Myles Jury has been added to the Las Vegas card, which is headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between champion Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier.
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