Melvin Guillard vs. Thiago Tavares Added to UFC 101
Melvin Guillard
Melvin Guillard will step into the octagon for the first time in over a year at UFC 101, taking on Thiago Tavares on August 8th in Portland, Oregon.
MMA Weekly was first to report the lightweight matchup on Monday, confirming that both fighters had verbally agreed to square off and that bout agreements were pending.
After winning three of his first four UFC bouts between 2005 and 2006, Guillard suffered a 27-second submission loss to Joe Stevenson in the UFC Fight Night 9 main event and was subsequently suspended for 8 months after testing positive for cocaine. He returned to action in December 2007, but was defeated by Rich Clementi and temporarily left the promotion. After going 1-0 outside the octagon, Guillard returned last July to defeat Dennis Siver via knockout in just 36-seconds. He was next scheduled to fight Spencer Fisher at UFC 90 in Chicago, but was forced to withdraw from the bout due to a torn ACL.
Tavares kept his undefeated record intact with back-to-back UFC victories over Naoyuki Kotani and Jason Black in early-2007, before suffering his first career loss to Tyson Griffin at UFC 76 later that year. After picking up a win over Michihiro Omigawa, Tavares suffered losses to Matt Wiman and Kurt Pellegrino, but rebounded in January with a unanimous decision over Manny Gamburyan.
UFC 101 is expected to be headlined by a heavyweight battle between former champions Randy Couture and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and will also feature Forrest Griffin against Thiago Silva.
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Tags: Melvin Guillard, Thiago Tavares
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sweet…melvin guillard. i hope this is the last time we have to see this loser.
hallelujah zac…he should be working at a car wash…
if they move gsp’s bout with alves this card they call call it ufc 101 all thiago all the time
I know there’s no fighter bashing,but there’s so many bad things i would love to say about guillard.I’ll just bite my tongue and say i hope he doesn’t fair well against taveras.
Hahaha that’s funny and rather nice of you not to fighter bash, and perhaps it is a bit tempting but well ya….
i see Guillard winning this. even though i don’t like him i gotta say he is prety damn fast
Hate em or love em Guillard has one of the top five [IMO] K.O. highlights of all time. He’ll make quick work of Tavares if it’s a stand up war.
Melvin is damn close to being in the same boat with Karo as the fighter who has wasted the most raw talent in the UFC. Maybe the two of them should fight for that title, if they are ever both off suspension at the same time.
I’ll never forget the night Rich Clementi choked his punk ass out…..