UFC president Dana White formally declared Grace Tourinho as the managing director for UFC in Brazil on November 2013, and her tenure will end one year after.
Tourinho, who first began working for the promotion in early 2013, will leave the promotion next month, according to a report from Veja. Sources near the situation confirmed the news to MMAFighting.com.
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As with any polarizing figure in the fight game, a particular amount of revelry may be believed on the list of mixed martial arts community following Alistair Overeem’s astonishing first-round knockout loss to Ben Rothwell at last Friday’s UFC Fight Night 50 event in Connecticut.
The upset added another chapter to Overeem’s increasingly anticlimactic UFC tenure, a run which started with this much assurance, but amid three knockout losses in four efforts, and also a failed drug test to boot, has slowly devolved into somewhat of a running punch line for fight fans.
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