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The forgotten UFC June 2011 non-PPV fight cards
By Zach Arnold | May 23, 2011
Ultimate Fighter Finale (TUF 13) 6/4 Las Vegas (The Pearl at The Palms)
- Bantamweights: Reuben Duran vs. Francisco Rivera
- Lightweights: Danny Downes vs. Jeremy Stephens
- Bantamweights: Scott Jorgensen vs. Ken Stone
- Featherweights: Josh Grispi vs. George Roop
- Middleweights: Ed Herman vs. Tim Credeur
- Light Heavyweights: Kyle Kingsbury vs. Fabio Maldonado
- Lightweights: Clay Guida vs. Anthony Pettis
UFC Live on Versus 6/26 Pittsburgh (CONSOL Energy Center)
- Welterweights: Charlie Brenneman vs. TJ Grant
- Lightweights: Michael Johnson vs. Edward Faaloloto
- Lightweights: Ricardo Lamas vs. Matt Grice
- Lightweights: Nik Lentz vs. Charles Oliveira
- Welterweights: Matt Brown vs. Rich Attonito
- Lightweights: Joe Lauzon vs. Curt Warburton
- Lightweights: Joe Stevenson vs. Javier Vazquez
- Featherweights: Tyson Griffin vs. Manny Gamburyan
- Heavyweights: Matt Mitrione vs. Christian Morecraft
- Welterweights: Martin Kampmann vs. John Howard
- Heavyweights: Cheick Kongo vs. Pat Barry
- Welterweights: Nate Marquardt vs. Anthony “Rumble” Johnson
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Marquardt will struggle against Rumble. Rumble will be too big and too strong. The weight cut will deplete Nate.
Only one fight I care about on the TUF card…. And that is the main event. It’s a good test to see if Pettis is UFC level and worthy of a title shot. I know beating Guida shouldn’t earn one a title shot, but it’s at least somesort of gauge.
I’m interested in 7 of the fights on the Versus card.
Marquardt/Johnson should be a solid Welterweight fight. Kongo/Barry & Kampmann/Howard are both interesting style match-up.
Mitrione/Morecraft should be a Heavyweight Barnburner.
The Griffin & Stevenson fights are purely interesting because we get to see how they do at Featherweight and if they can resurrect their careers.
Lastly, Lentz/Oliveira is an interesting fight. Lentz is still undefeated in the UFC and plays such a conservative game. Oliveira is the complete opposite of him and that he is extremely risky and wild in his fighting style. I’m interested in seeing how Lentz can do against such a fighter.
If I’m looking at these two cards…. It adds fuel to rumors that the UFC is headed towards Versus once their SpikeTV contract is up.
I’d like to see Petis (if he wins this fight) go against Gilbert Melendez. Then the winner could fight the Edgar/Maynard winner and we’d know who the best at 155 is.
Perfect world yes. During that time frame if Guillard beats Roller he could take on the Henderson-Miller winner for the next shot at the title after.
Yep. The Versus card has plenty more good fights.
Some evenly matched fights, but man… if there is any message to be sent to Versus here, it’s that they’re going to get the absolute dregs of UFC’s TV product. Of the 22 fighters on the card, 7 are coming off a win.
Obviously they are coming off losses, but I still think a lot of the guys coming off losses hold name recognition. Joe Stevenson and Tyson Griffin still have name value, and both have the “new weightclass” aura going for them. Javier Vasquez still holds some value. Kampman has arguably won his last two fights and got screwed (I believe he beat Diego, not Shields). Lauzon still holds name value. Kongo still looks like the first black spartan.
I think this is a pretty stacked card for cable TV.