By Guilherme Cruz

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The “Elite Squad” will attack again at UFC Rio (142), on January 14th of 2012, at HSBC Arena. Sources close to the situation told TATAME on Tuesday that Paulo Thiago, who made the fans go crazy when defeated David Mitchell, on August, is set to battle Mike Pyle on the next edition of the event in Rio.

Paulo increases to seven the number of fighters from UFC 134 that returns to Rio’s 142 card, on January.

UFC 142 (Rio)

HSBC Arena, Rio de Janeiro

Saturday, January 14th of 2012 

- Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes;

- Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson;

- Edson Junior vs. Terry Etim;

- Rousimar Palhares vs. Mike Massenzio;

- Paulo Thiago vs. Mike Pyle;

- Thiago Tavares vs. Sam Stout;

- Erick Silva vs. Siyar Bahadurzada;

- Fábio Maldonado vs. Stanislav Nedkov;

- Ednaldo Lula vs. Rob Broughton;

- Felipe Sertanejo vs. Antonio Carvalho.