Complete UFC 94 card

January 9, 2009

For those of you lucky enough to be in Vegas for the Penn/GSP showdown, the UFC just released the full fight card for the night.

MAIN EVENT
UFC WELTERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT
Georges St. Pierre vs. B.J. Penn
205: Lyoto Machida vs. Thiago Silva
205: Jon Jones vs. Stephan Bonner
170: Karo Parisyan vs. Dong Hyun Kim
155: Clay Guida vs. Nate Diaz
170: Jon Fitch vs. Akihiro Gono
155: Manvel Gamburyan vs. Thiago Tavares
170: Chris Wilson vs. John Howard
HW: Christian Wellisch vs. Jake O’Brien
170: Dan Cramer vs. Matt Arroyo

The Guida/Diaz fight is the first one that stood out to me after the top 2. This will be Diaz’s toughest test to date. Guida is one of those guys that wins some and loses some, but always puts on an entertaining fight, and I’d expect that to be the case here. We’ll get to see how Jon Fitch bounces back from the five-round beating he took at the hands of St. Pierre in his last fight, although it is interesting that it’s not part of the televised portion of the PPV.

Solid undercard overall. Machida/Silva is a battle of undefeated light heavyweights on the verge of a title shot, but doesn’t have the draw of a co-main event fight. The undercard though more than makes up for it. A lot of guys that are usually involved in entertaining fights, so it should be a good one.

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