Cincinnati's 'UFC Fight Night 40: Brown vs. Silva' lineup finalized with 13 bouts

The 13-bout lineup is set for May’s UFC Fight Night 40 event in Cincinnati.

The bulk of the May 10 card, including a welterweight headliner between Matt Brown (18-11 MMA, 11-5 UFC) and Erick Silva (16-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC), airs on FOX Sports 1 following a three-bout preliminary-card lineup on UFC Fight Pass.

The event takes place at U.S. Bank Arena. It’s the UFC’s first event in the city since UFC 77 in 2007, when local fighter Rich Franklin failed to reclaim the middleweight title from then-champ Anderson Silva.

Brown, a Xenia native who now trains out of Columbus, is the featured attraction this time around. The welterweight contender looks for his seventh straight win when he takes on Silva, a frequent fight-night bonus winner who looks to build off a recent knockout win over Takenori Sato.

UFC Fight Night 40's co-headliner features middleweights Constantinos Philippou (12-4 MMA, 5-3 UFC) vs. Lorenz Larkin (14-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC).

The official UFC Fight Night 40 lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (FOX Sports 1, 10 p.m. ET)

• Matt Brown vs. Erick Silva
• Lorenz Larkin vs. Constantinos Philippou
• Daron Cruickshank vs. Erik Koch
• William Macario vs. Neil Magny
• Soa Palelei vs. Ruan Potts
• Chris Cariaso vs. Louis Smolka

PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET)

• Ed Herman vs. Rafael Natal
• Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Darrell Montague
• Yan Cabral vs. Alexander Yakovlev
• Johnny Eduardo vs. Eddie Wineland

PRELIMINARY CARD (Preliminary card, 6:30 p.m. ET)

• Manny Gamburyan vs. Nik Lentz
• Justin Salas vs. Ben Wall
• Anthony Lapsley vs. Albert Tumenov

For more on UFC Fight Night 40, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.

(Pictured: Matt Brown)