# Does the UFC stack the card toward Brazilian fighters for events in Brazil?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 24, 2013, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-ufc-stack-the-card-toward-brazilian-fighters-for-events-in-brazil/674667 "2013-11-24T07:05:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-ufc-stack-the-card-toward-brazilian-fighters-for-events-in-brazil/674667/1 "2013-11-24T07:05:48Z")

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Title is the whole question.

It just seems like the Brazilians win those fights much more often. Maybe it’s mere home field advantage.

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-ufc-stack-the-card-toward-brazilian-fighters-for-events-in-brazil/674667/2 "2013-11-24T17:03:49Z")

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Going to move this to the Game Room.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-ufc-stack-the-card-toward-brazilian-fighters-for-events-in-brazil/674667/3 "2013-11-24T17:32:41Z")

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Are you thinking of any particular fights that struck you as mismatches? Taking a quick look at one fight from the February card in Brazil, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza is fighting Francis Carmont; Souza has won five in a row since losing the belt to Luke Rockhold, Francis Carmont is undefeated with six wins in UFC and hasn’t lost any of his 11 fights since 2008. That seems like a pretty solid match. Souza’s fight against Chris Carmozzi was a mismatch, but that was because they were stuck on the card together after both of their original opponents were injured.