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UFC Domination this April!
The Ultimate Fighting Championship will be delivering the goods in the month of April. While looking at the calendar of MMA events recently, I realized how stacked a month April is for MMA fans in general. Most of it will be provided by the kings of the sport - the UFC.
It begins on Thursday, April 5th with UFC Fight Night 9 live on Spike TV, with a main event of Joe Stevenson vs. Melvin Guillard. For the rest of the scheduled card for UFC Fight Night 9, go to http://www.mmanews.com/ufc/Petruzelli–McCully-Confirmed-For-UFC-Fight-Night-On-45.html
Later that night, the season premiere of The Ultimate Fighter 5 with an all Lightweight cast will debut on Spike TV.
A mere two days later, Saturday, April 7th will see the octagon land in Houston for the first ever Texas-based UFC PPV event being dubbed "Shootout," with Georges St. Pierre making his first UFC Welterweight title defense against Ultimate Fighter 4 winner Matt Serra. That show also features the very highly anticipated Welterweight bout between Ultimate Fighter season one stand out Josh Koscheck, and winner Diego Sanchez. For the full UFC 69 "Shootout" PPV card.
UFC 69 — April 7 in Houston, Texas (Toyota Center)
Main Card Bouts:
Georges St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra
Roger Huerta vs. Leonard Garcia
Diego Sanchez vs. Josh Koscheck
Mike Swick vs. Yushin Okami
Kendall Grove vs. Alan Belcher
Preliminary Bouts:
Heath Herring vs. Brad Imes
Thales Leites vs. Pete Sell
Luke Cummo vs. Josh Haynes
Pete Spratt vs. Marcus Davis
Five days will pass following that event and then it’s time for the second episode from season five of The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV. A week after that will be episode number three.
Two days later, UFC 70 "Nations Collide" will be the first full PPV event delivered on free cable television. It will be broadcast on Spike TV (most likely) in prime time on tape delay from England. Fighting on the card will be Mirko CroCop against Gabriel Gonzaga in a Heavyweight title eliminator, Andrei Arlovski against the former PRIDE star Fabricio Werdum, Forrest Griffin against undefeated "Lyoto" Ryoto Machida, Michael Bisping against journeyman Elvis Sinosic - as well as a loaded undercard featuring high-profile international bouts. The UFC 70 "Nations Collide" card was officially finalized today,
UFC 71 — April 21 in Manchester, England (M.E.N. Arena)
Main Card (televised)
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
Forrest Griffin vs. Ryoto Machida
Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic
Andrei Arlovski vs. Fabricio Werdum
Assuerio Silva vs. Cheick Kongo
Preliminary Matches (may not be broadcast)
Matt Grice vs. Terry Etim
Junior Assuncao vs. David Lee
Victor Valimaki vs. Alessio Sakara
Dennis Siver vs. Jess Liaudin
Edilberto Souza De Oliveira vs. Paul Taylor
Five days after that will be the final first-run program in the month of April from UFC as we get episode four of The Ultimate Fighter 5.
Oh yeah, that’s only what UFC has for us in the month of April. April 8th will be the PRIDE 34 "Kamikaze" PPV show. April 14th will be the BodogFIGHT PPV featuring Fedor Emelianenko vs. Matt Lindland.
Holy sh*t.
