Alexander Gustafsson has pulled out of his scheduled bout against Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, and has been replaced by Ryan Bader.
Sources close to MMAFighting revealed the news to Ariel Helwani.
Bader (21-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) has agreed to take the bout. “Darth” is coming off a vicious knockout victory over Ilir Latifi at UFC Hamburg. Prior to that, Bader was stopped by Anthony Johnson in just over one minute. Before the loss, Bader was on a five fight win streak with five decision victories over Anthony Perosh, Rafael Cavalcante, Ovince Saint Preux, Phil Davis and Rashad Evans respectively.
Nogueira (22-7 MMA, 5-4 UFC) debuted in the UFC at UFC 106, and stopped Luiz Cane with punches in just under two minutes. The Brazilian then faced Jason Brilz, and walked away with a split decision victory. At UFC 119, Nogueira lost a decision to Ryan Bader before being outpointed by Phil Davis in the main event of UFC Fight Night 24. Nogueira got back to winning ways with a TKO victory over Tito Ortiz at UFC 140 before upsetting the odds, and defeating Rashad Evans by decision at UFC 156. The theme of winning two, losing two continued, as Nogueira lost to Anthony Johnson, and then Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua. In his most recent outing, Nogueira stopped Patrick Cummins with strikes in the first round of their bout at UFC 198.
UFC Fight Night 100 takes place live from the Ginasio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 19.
