Report: UFC 93 In Dublin, Ireland on January 17th
UFC 93 will take place at the O2 Arena in Dublin, Ireland on January 17th, according to a report from Yahoo! Sports.
The long-anticipated showdown between former welterweight champions Matt Serra and Matt Hughes will reportedly take place at the January event and Rich Franklin vs. Dan Henderson may also be added to the fight card, according to MMAJunkie.com.
Chuck Liddell and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua may also appear on the card, though whether they will square off in a featured light heavyweight matchup is not yet known.
UFC 93 will take place on the same day as Affliction’s next event, “Day of Reckoning”, and could ultimately air for free on Spike TV on tape-delay opposite of Affliction’s pay-per-view broadcast.
A January 31st event headlined by Georges St-Pierre vs. BJ Penn will be tentatively-titled UFC 94.
Both UFC 93 and UFC 94 are expected to be officially announced soon.
Thanks Kris. That solves my mystery for the day.
back in the homeland mother****ers!
It will be nice to see Hugues go out with a win
damn, this card sounds pretty stacked. looks like the ufc read some of the complaints you brits had about always seeing the same fighters. i’ll be willing to bet they still try to incorporate bisping somehow, hahaha.
the ufc kickin it into high gear for my bday month nice. but all i kno is if the superbowl saturday one isnt a nasty card i will b severly dissappointed(like i was last year wit big doofy in the main event but luckily the giants made up for it the next day. G-MEN!!!) i remember chuck vs randy 3 on the superbowl weekend. i remember frankie edgar vs tyson griffen on the superbowl card wit anderson silva and the debuts of rampage and cro cop. my point is after last years i want a huge superbowl saturday show.
I wonder what weight class Franklin v. Henderson will be at. Since they both fight at 205 and 185. If its at 205, that gives a slight advantage to Franklin I believe, he’s a more natural 205 than Henderson. I also think that if its at 205, it helps to protect the potential Bisping - Henderson TUF. They’ll be able to say “He lost at light heavyweight, he’s still a contender at middle weight…blah blah”
BTW Kris, I’m liking the new look of things. Although not being able to see the number of comments on a story on the home page I do not like.
Thanks Justin, I’m glad you like it. It’s actually very preliminary and I accidentally rolled it out on accident but I’ll make sure I add the number of comments to the homepage before it’s actually released haha.
I see you changed things back. I’m trying to sort out how to change my Avatar, I forgot where I set that up. IF you go back to the other setup could you get the links or whatever for controlling avatars on here, please.
I loved the new site, keep up the good work as always Kris.
This news just blows Affliction out of the water.
ireland is also a great place to get hammered, might see about a weekend away in ireland, ufc + booze = a very happy johnboy haha
oh yeah! now thats a sic card
spot on johnboy,ireland is buzzing.thats a card to get excited about,be def going to that!about time ufc got a stacked card over here,just hope thay keep the liddell fight on it.
There will be info on adding/changing avatars once the new design launches but if you want to modify it now login at http://www.gravatar.com/ and you can change it ahead of time.
CHUCK VS RUA SOUNDS SICK!
HUGHES VS SERRA I CAN’T WAIT!!
FRANKLIN VS HENDERSON SOUNDS GOOD BUT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE IN EITHER DIVISION
HENDO IS LIKELY 1 W AWAY FROM A TITLE SHOT @ 185, AND IF FRANKLIN BEAT HENDO @ 185, IS THERE GOING TO BE A SILVA VS FRANKLIN 3? DON’T THINK SO.
I THINK IT SHOULD BE
HENDO VS MARQUARDT- WINNER = TITLE SHOT
FRANKLIN VS SOMEONE ELSE @ 205
Thanks Kris, I’ve got that sorted now, and ready to go when you bring that back up. Nothing against anyone on here, but I didn’t want my face plastered all over the site every time I comment. And besides that, I was the only person that had an avatar when they first came up.
I’m with you Jazzkok about the Chuck v. Rua, Hughes v. Serra, and the fact that Franklin v. Henderson doesn’t make much sense. I’d rather see Franklin v. someone else @ 205 like you said. As far as Henderson, I’m not sure who I’d like to see him fight.
You can have multiple Gravatars so one option is add another email address to your Gravatar account then associate a different Gravatar with it. Then use one email to comment on sites you don’t want your face on and another email for sites you want your face on.
If you need more help on figuring out how to do this let me know and I can walk you through it.
First off, I thought the Affliction event was on Jan. 24th not the 17th? Anyway, what ever day it is I hopes its free and stacked.
Problem is that if Hendo is going to be a TUF 9 coach, The UFC won’t want him to fight again before that happens. Hendo should hold fast. Instead of Okami vs. Lister, I think Okami vs. Marquardt would have been a sick fight.
Jason - There really isn’t a set date yet for Affliction’s next show. Originally it was moved to January 17th in Anaheim but recently I’ve been hearing the 24th or another date all together. The 17th is the most credible date I’ve read but when it ultimately ends up taking place is a toss up right now.
dublin is in ireland. so its not “brits” complainin cause we nt in Great Britain!!!!!!!!!!
It’s worth noting that Franklin was reportedly going to fight Liddell or Rua according to the original report but MMA Junkie, who has sources close to Franklin, is reporting it’ll likely be against Hendo.
The biggest question is what weight class this fight takes place at and the UFC could have Henderson vs. Franklin be at 205 then have Henderson fight Bisping at 185 on the finale of TUF 9. Doing this would allow Henderson to remain active in big matchups but still keep his 185 pound matchup with Bisping intact.
No matter what ends up happening this card is shaping up to be very good.
Who knows, the Affliction event might end up taking place in April, or May, based on the way the last one worked out.
Kris,
Thanks again. As I said, I’ve got it sorted now. I had set up that avatar for commenting on some friends’ blogs (I think), but now I have a blog myself, so I just login to wordpress before I go on their blogs. It had just been a while since I set up that avatar, and couldn’t figure out where I’d even set it up.
I do not believe all 3 of these fights will be on one card. And definitely not for free. All UK PPV sell very badly. Who’s paying $45 to watch this fight at home at 3pm on Saturday? No one. Plus there will be football playoff games going on. Tape delay for free on Spike, maybe, but they’d only have one of these fights to headline. Chuck and the Matts would sell 400k+ ppvs easily.
Gonzo,
If in fact the affliction event is held for that day, I can see Dana White having all of those fights free on one card, just to try to run Affliction out of business, if for no other reason. Whenever the announcement is made official we’ll know at least if it will be free or not, and probably the headlining fight.
i’ve been waiting for the hughes serra match 4 a long time , chuck shogun could is going to be bad for one of them , shogun lost last fight by submission (his forte) chuck got KO’d his last fight (his forte) would be a good fight for chuck to show a little more depth though hope he wins though!!
If Dana wants to put Affliction out of business, he should not run this for free. People would just tivo the UFC and pay for Pride. If he makes it PPV many more people will choose one or the other. People wont mind paying 40$ but 80$ for both is a bit much for Joe Sixpack.
DigYourOwnHole,
If I wanted to, I could DVR a PPV just as easily as regular TV, besides having to pay for it. I knew a lot of people that when Affliction ran Banned, were like “Why am I going to pay for that when I can watch the UFC for free?” The other thing is that the UFC event is happening at 3pm EST, most people won’t pay for a PPV at the time (the UFC tried it once, they didn’t do it again) and it seems silly to charge people PPV price to watch something that already happened. You’ll probably be able to find the videos from the UFC event on the internet before they actually air it at 9pm on Spike (if that is what they decide to do) then you’ll probably be able to find the fight videos from Affliction within a few minutes of their conclusion as well.
January is going to be a really great month for the UFC, 17th card wow if Shogun v Liddell, Hendo v Franklin, Matt v Matt com’on really Affliction has nothing on them they could have Fedor v Barnett (which would be awesome i know) yet the UFC will make sure to have a crazy complete card in Ireland (slanje es pora diem) wow, o and wait at the end of the month GSP v BJ Penn “super fight”, ya Affliction the UFC doesnt have to wait 6 full months to put on their next card, they put them on monthly and sometimes twice a month, ehhhh who am i kidding i will buy them all mostlikely ya im going to……..
jazzkoK
one: Hendo needs to win aleat 2 more fight 4 a title shot. He will likly beat franklin fight at 205 or 185 but if not one he beats bisping he will get a title shot. Win or lose at eaither weight franklin will have win another fight to get a shot a either belt.