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Your cliff notes guide to keeping up with UFC’s four April events
By Zach Arnold | April 2, 2014

Event: UFC Fight Night from Abu Dhabi (Friday, April 11th on Yas Island)
TV: Internet
- Featherweights: Alan Omer vs. Jim Alers
- Flyweights: Alptekin Ozkilic vs. Dustin Ortiz
- Middleweights: Chris Camozzi vs. Andrew Craig
- Middleweights: Thales Leites vs. Trevor Smith
- Bantamweights: Rani Yahya vs. Johnny Bedford
- Heavyweights: Jared Rosholt vs. Daniel Omielanczuk
- Lightweights: Ramsey Nijem vs. Beneil Dariush
- Welterweights: John Howard vs. Ryan LaFlare
- Featherweights: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Clay Guida
- Heavyweights: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Roy Nelson
Event: UFC Ultimate Fighter Nations Finale (Wednesday, April 16th in Quebec City at Colisée Pepsi)
TV: Fox Sports 1
- Bantamweights: Mitch Gagnon vs. Tim Gorman
- Light Heavyweights: Ryan Jimmo vs. Sean O’Connell
- Featherweights: Dustin Poirier vs. Akira Corassani
- Bantamweights: Dustin Kimura vs. George Roop
- Lightweights: Mark Bocek vs. Evan Dunham
- Ladies 135 pounds: Sarah Kaufman vs. Amanda Nunes
- Lightweights: Sam Stout vs. KJ Noons
- Welterweights: Patrick Cote vs. Kyle Noke
- Middleweights: Michael Bisping vs. Tim Kennedy
Event: UFC on Fox 11 (Saturday, April 19th in Orlando, Florida at Amway Center)
TV: Fox broadcast stations
- Featherweights: Mirsad Bektic vs. Chas Skelly
- Featherweights: Sean Soriano vs. Estevan Payan
- Heavyweights: Derrick Lewis vs. Jack May
- Welterweights: Jordan Mein vs. Hernani Perpetuo
- Middleweights: Josh Samman vs. Caio Magalhaes
- Lightweights: Jorge Masvidal vs. Pat Healy
- Welterweights: Thiago Alves vs. Seth Baczynski
- Lightweights: Rafael dos Anjos vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov
- Middleweights: Brad Tavares vs. Yoel Romero
- Lightweights: Donald Cerrone vs. Edson Barboza
- Ladies 135 pounds: Miesha Tate vs. Liz Carmouche
- Heavyweights: Travis Browne vs. Fabricio Werdum
Event: UFC 172 (Saturday, April 26th at the Baltimore Arena)
TV: Fox Sports 1/PPV
- Lightweights: Danny Castillo vs. Charlie Brenneman
- Lightweights: Yancy Medeiros vs. Joe Ellenberger
- Ladies 135 pounds: Jessamyn Duke vs. Bethe Correia
- Lightweights: Takanori Gomi vs. Isaac Vallie-Flagg
- Flyweights: Joe Benavidez vs. Tim Elliott
- Featherweights: Max Holloway vs. Andre Fili
- Lightweights: Jim Miller vs. Bobby Green
- Middleweights: Luke Rockhold vs. Tim Boetsch
- Light Heavyweights: Phil Davis vs. Anthony Johnson
- UFC Light Heavyweight title match: Jon Jones vs. Glover Teixeira
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The first two card are weak.
The FOX card is decent but why no title fights on FOX this year? Seems like a waste…
The PPV could be stronger if they had fewer cards this month.
The Fox card is pretty good – arguably better than the PPV.
Once again though – how awesome would it be if there were 2 stacked cards this month, instead of 4 medium-to-bad cards.
Thats a good win for Country.
But he looked the same as he ever does.
He’s dangerous but he’s fairly predictable and not really expanding his repertoire.
He’ll never win the belt, but he puts on fun watchable fights.
Nelson/Gonzaga or a Rothwell rematch is something fun to watch and worth a PPV slot.
IMO.
Nog was out on his feet. I know it’s a tough call for a ref to stop a fight when one guy is still standing. But it wasn’t necessary to have Nog knocked out cold like that.
Kennedy and Bisping both looked good, no big loser there.
Kennedy did look kind of stiff and tiring though.
I kept thinking that his physique although impressive may have been getting in his way.
He’s gonna have to look like he’s got more gas and little bit more limber if he’s gonna hope to crack that top 3 IMO.
It was a good win though, congrats to him.
Friggen Verdum!
🙂
The guys as good as the best of them when he feels like it.
He should have been a undisputed HW champ years ago, if he was always THAT Verdum.
But all he ever seems to be satisfied with if proving that he’s plenty capable to throw a wrench in things,
and after getting a title shot I fully expect him to scootch around on his butt for no good reason or something equally absurd.
Browne/Dos sounds cool.