Sicilia Replaced by Souza against Arantes at UFC Fight Night 28

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Originally the UFC announced that Sam Sicilia (11-3) would meet Godofredo Pepy (9-2) in a Featherweight contest at UFC Fight Night 28, but not long after Pepy withdraw from the scheduled bout and was replace by Felipe Arantes (15-5-1). Sicilia has reportedly now also been removed from the bout for undisclosed reasons and will be replaced by the debuting Edimilson Souza (12-3).

Sicilia was looking to get back in the win column coming off consecutive losses to Rony Jason and Maximo Blanco.

Arentes last fought at UFC on Fuel TV 10, defeating ; bouncing back from fighting Milton Veira to a split draw.

Souza enters the UFC riding the momentum of 7 consecutive wins, all by KO/TKO; and has 12 of 13 stoppage wins by KO/TKO.

UFC Fight Night 28 takes place on September 4th at the Estadio Jornalista Drumond in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; and is headlined by Glover Teixeira vs. Ryan “Darth” Bader in a Light Heavyweight collision.

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