Kuniyoshi Hironaka will face Thiago Alves at UFC Fight Night 11 according to a recent post by Hironaka on his blog.
Hironaka has an 11-3 overall MMA record including a 1-1 record in the UFC. He debuted in the UFC at UFC 64 last year against top welterweight Jon Fitch and fought to a unanimous decision [...]

Here are the fighter salaries from UFC Fight Night 9 last night from MMAWeekly.com:
Main Event Fighters
-Joe Stevenson: $32,000 (5th fight in UFC; defeated Melvin Guillard)
-Melvin Guillard: $7,000 (5th fight in UFC; lost to Joe Stevenson)
Main Card Fighters
-Kenny Florian: $16,000 (6th fight in UFC; defeated Dokonjonosuke Mishima)
-Dokonjonosuke Mishima: $8,000 (2nd fight in UFC; lost to [...]

Forrest Petz (12-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) will be replacing Jeff Joslin on the April 5th UFC Fight Night 9 card. Joslin was forced to withdraw due to injury. Petz will face Kuniyoshi Hironaka (10-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) according to Sherdog.com.
Petz began his MMA career in January 2002 and made his UFC debut at Fight Night [...]

Roan Carneiro (10-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will make his UFC debut against Rich Clementi (24-11-1 MMA, 1-2 UFC) according to GracieMag.com. Carneiro was scheduled to face Anthony Torres.
The substitution pits Carneiro against a more experiened opponent but one that would likely give Carneiro a tougher fight and more exposure. Carneiro talked about the exposure in [...]

Frank Mir (9-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC), the former UFC Heavyweight Champion was scratched earlier this week due to a then undisclosed injury. MMAWeekly.com is reporting that Mir was forced to withdraw due to a shoulder injury. From the article:
Mir evidently suffered the shoulder injury in training and it wasn’t healing properly for him to be [...]

Update: Mir suffered a shoulder injury according to numerous reports. Read more on the injury here.
Frank Mir (9-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC), the former UFC Heavyweight Champion, has been scratched from the UFC Fight Night 9 card where he was to face Antoni Hardonk (5-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC). Mir has an undisclosed injury and was [...]

UFCJunkie.com has broken the news that Hector Ramirez (6-2-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) has been scratched from UFC Fight Night 9 and has been replaced by Seth Petruzelli (6-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC). Petruzelli will be taking on Wilson Gouveia (7-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC). They report the scratch was due to an undisclosed injury.
Petruzelli competed on the [...]