SAO PAULO – Throughout the numerous hits Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 137 fight card took, a light heavyweight meeting between Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Sam Alvey stayed intact. For a while there, though, Nogueira feared that might not be the case. Nogueira (22-8 MMA, 5-5 UFC), who’ll snap a 22-month layoff when he meets Alvey (33-10 MMA, 10-5 UFC), says he had a problem with his right knee almost one month ago and, at the time, thought it could be serious enough to force him out of the card in his home country
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