Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heads to Brazil for the second time this year as UFC on FX 8: "Belfort vs. Rockhold" goes down this Saturday night (May 18, 2013) from Santa Catarina, a city the organization has yet to visit in six trips to the South American nation.

Home country hero Vitor Belfort will compete in the main event of the evening when he welcomes ex-Strikeforce champion Luke Rockhold to the Octagon for the first time in a five-round middleweight main event.

With the event just days away, let's take a few minutes to review some event-related facts about UFC on FX 8.

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That's a wrap for this set of UFC facts.

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(Some information courtesy of UFC, FightMetric and MMADecisions)