According to a recent article, Tickets for the upcoming June 12, UFC 115 event are currently ready to be gobbled up on Tuesday; however—just as the "hot rumor" of last month suggested, the main event will not be Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz III, as previously scheduled.
The two current coaches of this seasons "The Ultimate Fighter " Liddell and Ortiz, according to the confirmed news, will now possibly become the "first ever" stars of the series to not have a season ending match against each each, as Ortiz will now be replaced by Rich Franklin.
This is UFC's first show in the western Canadian provinces. UFC 115 is to be held in Vancouver, BC., and no confirmed reason has been given as to why it is now Franklin who is stepping in for Ortiz.
In fact, when the rumor first surfaced, UFC president Dan White was extremely adamant, and very outspoken regarding the news. He suggested that it was nonsense, and accused the media of once again fabricating untrue story's.
White and Liddell are extremely close friends, and they have a long and notorious history of not being on friendly terms with their nemesis " Tito."
White and Ortiz were once scheduled to have an exhibition boxing match against each other, in order to settle their differences.
However, in recent months, White has gone on record to say that he and Ortiz have somewhat " kissed and made up.
The UFC president, in that instance seemed to be telling the truth, as evidenced by Ortiz's recent return to the UFC octagon in a losing effort to Forrest Griffin earlier this year.
White even went as far as "tweeting" on his twitter.com account that there was no such trouble brewing with between he and Ortiz, on the new "TUF" reality series.
It would now seem quite logical that indeed there must have been some untold event, or an unpredicted outburst during the taping of the show, which has caused the unplanned emergence of Franklin.
Clearly, the question can now be asked if the the "real liar" in this case was UFC President White himself.
Maybe "It will all come out in the wash" as they say, as the current season of the Spike TV reality based show has only just begun.
Stay tuned folks, as more of this never-ending-yarn is surely to be unraveled in the coming weeks.
from: bleacherrepport.com
UFC 115 Poster And Story
UFC 111 Preview: Carwin V/S Mir
Mirs last fight was against UFC heavyweight Check Kongo. mir timed the perfect oppurtunitty and cracked Kongo on the chin, Dazed Kongo fell to the canvas as he sprawls and lets Mir grab ahold of the neck. Non-greedily Mir accepts this invitation and defeats Kongo first round guilottene. Mir has a very strong jui-jitsu base and this is because he beleives that most of the heavyweight competitors use wrestling and boxing but if he could be explosive, fast and powerfull also using alot of technique like the lightweights then that will make a difference fighting against heavyweights.
Carwin has fought very tough opponents worthy enough to be in the UFC and torn his way through them all, after just comming off his last win to gabriel gonzaga by knockout he showed alot of skill, strength and heart. He got hit with hard hands, tooken down, ground and pounded and then at the end of it all got back up to hos feet and was able to knock out the dangerouse muay thai striker Gonzaga.
Mir thinks that carwin is a better opponent then Lesnar cause Brock lesnar can knock guys out but shane carwin can KNOCK guys out. Mir says all Lesnar does is lay on you and lays his clubs of hands across your face, but Carwin wow thats a guy who could really knock a guy out. And for the exact reason of watching him fight Gonzaga. Getting cracked on the head hard being tooken down and being hit harder on the ground then standing it up and using technique to land his punch (uppercut) right on the jaw.
And in only a time of 2 days we will be hearing the amazing bruce buffer announce these 2 fighters and watch this exciting fight only on payperview
UFC 110: Silva Key Stats
Wanderlai Silva, aka The Axe Murderer scores a total of 32 wins throught his career. 23 by (T)KO's, 3 by Submission and 6 by Decisions. He also has loss 10 times (5 by Ko's and 5 by decisions) and only 1 draw. In the UFC Silva has taken down fighters like Keith Jardine by KO on Round 1, but has been defeated by important fighters such as "The Iceman" Chuck Lidell and Rich Franklin. Anyways its close to Feb 20th and we are waiting fot the Axe Murderer to face Michael Bisping. What will it be then?
