Tuesday, December 6, 2011

UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida

UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Jon Jones, is set to defend his UFC belt agains former champion Lyoto Machida in UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida.

UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 10, 2011 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.

A bout between Lyoto Machida and Phil Davis were linked to this event; however, it was revealed that Davis is still recovering from a knee injury and the bout would not occur.

Jon Jones was scheduled to defend his title agains former teammate and former UFC Light Heavyweight Chamption "Sugar" Rashad Evans, but, a lingering thumb injury cost Evans the potential title bout with Jones for the second time, and Lyoto Machida was moved to the main bout.

UFC 140 will also feature a rematch between former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir and Antonio "Minotauro" Noguiera and a fight between Tito Ortiz and Antonio Rogerio Noguiera.
UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida

Light Heavyweight Championship bout:  Jon Jones vs.  Lyoto Machida
Heavyweight bout:  Frank Mir vs.  Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Light Heavyweight bout:  Tito Ortiz vs.  Antônio Rogério Nogueira
Welterweight bout:  Claude Patrick vs.  Brian Ebersole
Featherweight bout:  Mark Hominick vs.  Chan Sung Jung

UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida Preliminary card (Ion Television)
Light Heavyweight bout:  Krzysztof Soszynski vs.  Igor Pokrajac
Middleweight bout:  Jared Hamman vs.  Constantinos Philippou
Lightweight bout:  John Makdessi vs.  Dennis Hallman
Bantamweight bout:  Yves Jabouin vs.  Walel Watson

UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida Preliminary card (Facebook)
Lightweight bout:  Mark Bocek vs.  Nik Lentz
Welterweight bout:  Rich Attonito vs.  Jake Hecht
Lightweight bout:  Mitch Clarke vs.  John Cholish
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