Ben Rothwell vs. Chase Gormley “Trilogy” Matchup Moved to UFC 104
A heavyweight bout between Ben Rothwell and Chase Gormley originally scheduled to take place on August 1 at the recently-canceled Affliction: Trilogy event has been re-booked and will now take place at UFC 104 on October 24 in Los Angeles, Sherdog is reporting.
Both fighters will be making their Octagon debut at the pay-per-view card, which is expected to be headlined by light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua.
An IFL veteran who trains under Pat Miletich and Duke Roufus, Rothwell (30-6) had won 13-straight fights, including wins over Roy Nelson and Krzysztof Soszynski, before suffering his first loss in nearly four years at the hands of Andrei Arlovski at Affliction: Banned last July. Rothwell rebounded at Adrenaline MMA 2 in December, scoring a first-round submission of Chris Guillen.
Gormley (6-0), an NAIA All-American Wrestler, has won all 6 of his professional fights, most-recently fighting at MFC 16 in May 2008, defeating Eric Pele via unanimous decision.
Rumors are making the rounds that the UFC has picked up approximately 20 former Affliction fighters, including Rothwell and Gormley, in its recently-announced collaboration with the former-promotion. UFC President Dana White will “break news” during a Friday press conference, with the rumored fighter acquisitions expected to be announced then.
Pictured: Ben Rothwell
Tags: Ben Rothwell, Chase Gormley
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Any other rumors on who else the UFC has picked up from Affliction?
Ofcourse there are rumors of the UFC picking up certain fighters, yet most are just rumors of Fedor and Vitor Belfort… So until tomorrow when (if) Dana says hey these are the guys we have new to the org we will either be happy that Fedor was signed or a bit upset either way tomorrow should be interesting..
This fight is going to be ok, I wasn’t too amped for it but it looks like a decent match, Big Ben should do ok and get the W but you never know against a hungry fighter such as Gormley
kris rothwell didnt beat guillen by ko…..he won by submission due to strikes…i watched that on justin.tv
submission due to elbows stikes Gun, goodness
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I’m not sure about this fight.
I’m always a little uneasy when one fighter has SIX TIMES the experience of his opponent, but in the age of Brock Lesnar experience is a fairly low priority, so I guess we’ll be seeing more fights of this nature.
Also, this is a great problem for the UFC to have, a sudden influx of talented MMA fighter in multiple weight classes…
Important to note that since it was an Affliction bout that most likely the dartboard match up approach was applied. Meaning ok we have Ben Rothwell…who can we find to fight him… ok he’ll do. Not saying anything bad about Gormley but the roster was about as deep as a plastic kiddie pool in the back yard. Had to be some reaches there.
To your last sentence I simply say what a wonderful problem to have.
Exactly.
