| UFC 90 televised main card announced |
The Ultimate Fighting Championship today announced the official fight card, including the five televised bouts that will be part of the night’s pay-per-view broadcast, for next month’s UFC 90 event.
UFC 90, which takes place Oct. 25 just outside Chicago at Allstate Arena, features a main event of UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote.
Diego Sanchez, Thiago Alves, Thales Leites, Fabricio Werdum, Sean Sherk and Tyson Griffin have also been awarded TV time.
Meanwhile, fighters such as rising lightweight contenders Rich Clementi and Gray Maynard, and veterans Spencer Fisher and Hermes Franca, have been relegated to the night’s preliminary card.
The full fight card includes:
MAIN CARD (TELEVISED)
* Middleweight champ Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote
* Thiago Alves vs. Diego Sanchez
* Thales Leites vs. Goran Reljic
* Fabricio Werdum vs. Junior dos Santos
* Tyson Griffin vs. Sean Sherk
PRELIMINARY CARD (UN-TELEVISED)
* Rich Clementi vs. Gray Maynard
* Spencer Fisher vs. Shannon Gugerty
* Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Horwich
* Marcus Aurelio vs. Hermes Franca
* Josh Burkman vs. Pete Sell
Tickets to the show are already on sale. It’ll be the first-ever UFC event in Chicago; the state only recently passed legislation to begin the regulation of MMA in Illinois.
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