UFC Officially Announces Remaining Bouts For UFC 86 “Jackson vs. Griffin”
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization today announced the remaining fights for the upcoming UFC 86: JACKSON vs. GRIFFIN which features opposing coaches for The Ultimate Fighter Season 7, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and the winner of the first-ever season of The Ultimate Fighter, Forrest Griffin. The Ultimate Fighting Championship organization presents UFC 86: JACKSON vs. GRIFFIN live from the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Saturday, July 5, 2008.
Just confirmed on the undercard are exciting match-ups between Justin McCully vs. Gabriel Gonzaga; Cole Miller vs. Jorge Gurgel; Dennis Siver vs. Melvin Guillard; and Justin Buchholz vs. Corey Hill.
Tickets for UFC 86: JACKSON vs. GRIFFIN are on sale now and are priced at $800, $500, $300, $200, $100 and $50. Tickets are being sold at any Mandalay Bay box office and all Las Vegas Ticketmaster locations (select Smith’s Food and Drug Centers, Macy’s West at the Fashion Show Mall and Ritmo Latino). To charge by phone with a major credit card, call the Mandalay Bay box office at (702) 632-7580 or Ticketmaster at (702) 474-4000. Tickets also are available for purchase at www.ufc.com, www.mandalaybay.com or www.ticketmaster.com.
UFC 86: JACKSON vs. GRIFFIN is available live on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. EST/7 p.m. PST on iN DEMAND, DIRECTV, DISH Network, TVN, Bell ExpressVu, Shaw Communications and Viewer’s Choice Canada for a suggested retail price of $44.95 for standard definition or high-definition broadcasts (where available).
Justin “The Insane One†McCully (8-3-2) 6’2â€/240 lbs., fights out of Huntington Beach, Calif. After his dominant three round victory over Antoni Hardonk in April of 2007, bright things were forecast for heavyweight McCully. Then injuries sidelined the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt for much of the year. Now healthy and eager to assault the heavyweight division, “The Insane One†returns to the Octagonâ„¢ against Gabriel “Napao†Gonzaga (8-3-0) 6’1â€/240 lbs. Gabriel Gonzaga’s rise up the heavyweight ranks was nothing short of spectacular, with wins over Kevin Jordan, Fabiano Scherner, Carmelo Marrero, and Mirko Cro Cop thrilling fight fans around the world. Losses to Randy Couture and Fabricio Werdum have slowed the Brazilian’s progress, but after an intense training camp in his adopted home of Ludlow, he is ready to once again regain his spot in the UFC title picture.
Cole Miller (13-3-0) 6’1â€/155 lbs., fighting out of Coconut Creek, Fla., notched impressive wins over Andy Wang and Leonard Garcia after his stay on The Ultimate Fighter® 5, furthering his reputation as one of the lightweight division’s top up and comers. Though the Georgia native hit a bump in the road in a hard fought January loss to Jeremy Stephens, this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu purple belt is more focused than ever heading into his match-up with Jorge Gurgel (16-3-0) 5’9â€/155 lbs. Winner of three of his five UFC fights, Jorge Gurgel’s energetic style has made him a fan favorite around the world. It wasn’t until his hard-fought decision win over John Halverson at UFC 82 in March that fans got to see the real “JG,†as he used all his talents to earn his most impressive victory yet in the Octagon. The Cincinnati fighter will look to build on his success against Miller.
Dennis Siver (11-5-0) 5’7â€/155 lbs., fighting out of Mannheim, Germany has been gathering more and more fans with each bout after a knockout win over Naoyuki Kotani and a memorable war with Gray Maynard in his last two UFC outings. While this hard-charging 28-year old will be pushed to the limit once again when he takes on Melvin “The Young Assassin†Guillard, which is precisely the type of fight the four year mixed martial arts veteran lives for. At (39-8-3) 5’9â€/155 lbs., the career of New Orleans’ Guillard has seen its share of ups and downs. With a renewed focus on his ground game, the still developing lightweight prospect is eager to show not only his knockout power, but his ability to win a fight wherever it may go. A recent winner over Eric Regan in March, “The Young Assassin†is chomping at the bit to get back in the Octagon and back in the UFC win column.
Justin Buchholz (8-2-0) 6’0â€/155 lbs., fighting out of Sacramento, Calif., hasn’t had any opponents hear the final bell ring. The aggressive Alaskan native has no intentions of letting Corey Hill become the first. A well-rounded battler who now trains with WEC featherweight champ Urijah Faber in Sacramento, Buchholz is looking to not only finish off his foe, but to get his first Octagon win under his belt and begin on his road to the UFC lightweight title. At 6 foot 4, Hill (2-0-0) is a scary match-up for everyone at 155 pounds. Add in an ever-developing fight game and the West Virginia native is on the fast track to big things in the coming years. Just ask Joe Veres, who Hill stopped in his UFC debut in January. The popular member of The Ultimate Fighter’s fifth season cast hopes to keep his unbeaten string unbroken when he faces off against Buchholz.
Click here to view the official fight card for UFC 86 “Jackson vs. Griffin”.
Tags: Cole Miller, Corey Hill, Dennis Siver, Gabriel Gonzaga, Jorge Gurgel, justin buchholz, Justin McCully, Melvin Guillard
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This is going to be a great fight card!
Of course everyone wants to see the Griffin Rampage fight, but fight of the night could come from the Miller Gurgel fight! I look for that one to be a ground war!
I am also curious to see how Hill has progressed.
i used to hate hill on tuf but ive been bought into all the hype around him so will be good to see how he does,
im a big fan of the young assassin the guy is an animal and throws bombs he reminds me of mike tyson back in the day,
hope miller wins an all i see this guy as champ one day as ive already said before.
p.s ive been thinking about the forret rampage fight and i cant see forrest winning, rampage is a freak of nature and forrest hasn’t got the power to bang with him, it pains me to say this but i see this fight ending in the 1st!!
i will be cheering for forrest tho!!
I feel Gurgel is overrated. He may be a great coach and teacher but to me that is all he is. As a fighter I have found him to get over powered by most of his opponents. Furthermore, Gurgel has been far from exciting to me. Just my opinion. I truly hope Cole dominates him.
I didn’t care for Jorge during the show. I hated the way he reacted to Rich not letting him do the scarecrow drill.
Johnboy I am with you. I will be rooting for Forrest, but I don’t see him winning on anything but pure heart.
This does not seem like a very appealing card at all which is why it is not sold out. Its got a decent main event but not much else. compared to ufc87 this card blows. probably on par with the next fight night.
I love this card!
A title fight for the deepest weight class in MMA.
Joe Stephenson makes his return after that bloody loss to Penn.
Koscheck looks to prove that he deserves top consideration against Lytle
Gonzaga looks to rebound and show that his KO of Cro Cop wasn’t a fluke…
and the Miller vs. Gurgel fight is going to be a brawl!
I think the card is better than just an average card. No it wont rival any New Years show, but it will def be worth the buy.
I can almost see the winners of the Stevenson and Miller fight meeting…..
Great card! Miller vs. Gurgel should be a good one.
I love the main event. Other than that, none of these fights excite me. Gurgel is the most overrated fighter in the UFC. I’m looking forward to UFC 87 which is a stcked card! I do hope Griffin pulls it out
Quinton Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin (Forest)
UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
Patrick Cote vs. Ricardo Almeida (Almedia)
Joe Stevenson vs. Gleison Tibau (Tibau)
Josh Koscheck vs. Chris Lytle (Koscheck)
Tyson Griffin vs. Marcus Aurelio (Tyson)
Preliminary Bouts
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Justin McCully (War Napao!)
Jorge Gurgel vs. Cole Miller (Cole)
Melvin Guillard vs. Dennis Siver (Melvin)
Corey Hill vs. Justin Buchholz (Corey)
Why the hell is Melvin ‘booger sugar lovin’ Guillard even in the UFC. I thought he was going to go get some experience elsewhere or something. Like forever.
Melvin is still a fantastic, explosive guy. He suffers against the grapplers a bit but he’s a ko guy in the LW division and that poses a threat against anybody. Seriously I know i’ve said some weird crap before but Melvin can KO ANYBODY in that division because of his speed and power. So i don’t mind seeing him fight again.
Rampage will win imo, but I hope he don’t
I don’t believe Rampage; Shogun was every bit as good as he has always been in the Griffin fight; Griffin has just gotten that much better. Frrest by unanimous decision.
Rampage will win by tko in the 3rd or 4th ill say this about Forrest hes a scrapper whos tough as hell but Rampage will b throwing wit bad intentions and Forrest can only avoid them for so long
Melvin is in danger of getting the boot if he loses this fight. In a way he reminds me of Kevin Randleman. Randleman is explosive and fun to watch, but he seems like always get rocked and is the victim of a early stoppage.
Either way it should be a good fight to watch.
As for saying he can KO anybody…sure anyone has a punchers chance, but I would like to see him KO Penn, Sherk, Florian, or Huerta… I am not so sure he can at this point in his career
Melvin=Randleman is an interesting topic.I like Guillard till he laid that egg of a fight on UFN and then picked up the Coke problem.
the main event is really the only thing i am intrested in. but because i am a huge fan i will hang around for the other fights as well george vs cole should be a nice fight george is got great bjj and he is working standup with rich franklin so that has to be improving a bit
forrest i believe has the tools to pull it off and I believe that shogun was top notch for that fight they had and forrest owned him they said it on the ufc 86 preview but i do really believe that forrest had a little taste of defeat with jardine and i am sure he didnt like getting his A** whooped like that.
i dont believe he has it in him to finish rampage. i know forrest has great conditioning however that hasnt been tested in 5 rounds. i believe it will be a standup war. rampage is the champ for a reason and I dont think he will let this fight go by easily so we are all in for a great showing.
I think since his pride days rampage has stepped his game up alot, but he did face losses right before the ufc and hes done a good job securing the win so far. but i think with forrest hes going to lay it all out and show us some sick octagon slams and his sledgehammer arms even more! i know he knocked out chuck but that was pretty quick, i want to see some facial explosions!
Forrest will take a whooping in the early rounds but I believe that he will out work Rampage throughout the fight. I got Forrest winning by split decision.
How the hell is Melvin Guillard still in the UFC ?
That’s what I asked Lonely jew, I would love to know that, especially with as many good fighters have been cut for 1 or maybe 2 losses. Come on, get rid of this guy already.
Exactly what does he offer ?
Yes he has charisma but thats it.
I mean come on after the Joe Stevenson fight (In which he got out classed as he did in the Neer & Clementi fights) he cried that Joe was on HGH (Joe tested clean) yet the hypocritical dumbass tested positive for cocaine !
Dana Brings him back and Clementi makes him tap like **** !
Melivin should f*** off to Gladiator Challange or Rage In The Cage and continue to fight bums !!!
I think this card is fairly weak apart from the title fight which i’ve got Rampage winning early. The Koscheck fight should be good for all you insomniacs out there.
Assuming the Cole Miller on here is the real fighter, I’ll be rooting for ya!
I think the coke hurt Melvin’s game especially the Stevenson fight. Maybe if he trained with Edddie Bravo he could get back on track…
Melvin need to think about the fight a little more and not expect his athletic prowess to always carry him through.
There’s a lot of TUF names on here, actually only 2 fights that don’t have a TUF alum, but that’s what they are using as drawing power. I want to see the last 2 fights, but that’s it. I think Rampage by decision, and Cote by KO. I cheering for Lytle, but not very confident in that.
The UFC must kick some serious ass with the way people are becoming consistantly unhappy with the fight cards. As I see it, the UFC has yet to leave me unimpressed. There will always be bad matches….even the most hyped fights will let us down. Kos/Sanchez, Quarry/Starnes and Tim Sylvia fights. BORING. The last UFC in England got bashed to hell and I loved it! A lot of people ended up enjoying it. It turned out 100 times better than people were giving the fight card credit for. I bet this card kicks ass too and I can’t wait……..I spend a minimum $600 a year on UFC PPVs……I heard Elite XC is going under.
An incredible card.
I mean.. Gonzaga vs McCully a prelim? That’s just crazy. I would have had it on the Main card, but Joe Silva knows what he is doing and having that fight on the prelim really shows the quality of the card at whole.
Also Koscheck vs Lytle is one of the most talent filled “Loser leaves town”-match of the year.
Forrest is going to beat down rampage late in the 4th / early 5th round. I watched the Shogun fight a couple of times this weekend and wow, that was not fluke. He plays this “aw shucks I’m not into this jitz stuff…” but his jitz was tight. Great guard and, serious submission attempts, and was able to get off the ground… If he uses his kicks and keeps his jabs active and uses his reach he has a great shot. Considering Forrest’s ultra endurance and Rampage’s lack of heart when he gets hurt, I’m feelin’ good about Forrest….
Wears Kimbo??? This card sucks without Mr. Slice! Holla!
Although I really love Rampage and he is one of my favorite fighters but this fight with Forrest has me really nervous. For some reason, I feel an upset coming. For some reason, I feel like it’s just Forrest’s time to shine and be in the spot light. I hope somehow Rampage pulls it out thought.
Quinton Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin (I want and hope Rampage wins, but something tells me that Forrest is going to take it)
UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
Patrick Cote vs. Ricardo Almeida (Almedia)
Joe Stevenson vs. Gleison Tibau (Stevenson)
Josh Koscheck vs. Chris Lytle (Koscheck)
Tyson Griffin vs. Marcus Aurelio (Aurelio)
Preliminary Bouts
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Justin McCully (Gonzaga)
Jorge Gurgel vs. Cole Miller (Cole)
Melvin Guillard vs. Dennis Siver (Melvin in exciting fasion)
Corey Hill vs. Justin Buchholz (Corey)