Antonio Carlos Junior and Elias Theordorou have verbally agreed to a middleweight bout on the Sept. 22 UFC Sao Paulo event in Brazil. MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz confirmed an initial report by Combate.
Carlos Junior has won five consecutive bouts, four of which have come via submission. His most recent victory was a first-round rear-naked choke submission of Tim Boetsch at UFC on FOX 29 in Glendale, Ariz.
Theodorou has won two straight fights, and four out of his past five, with the most recent win being a unanimous decision over Trevor Smith at UFC Liverpool.