UFC 97: Redemption Lineup Finalized
Posted by admin on Mar 19, 2009 at 10:45 am ET4 Comments
The complete fight card for UFC 97: Redemption, which takes place on April 18th at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada, has been officially announced by the UFC.
The official lineup features:
MAIN CARD (televised)
- Anderson Silva (c) vs. Thales Leites
UFC Middleweight Championship - Chuck Liddell vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
- Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Brian Stann
- Cheick Kongo vs. Antoni Hardonk
- Luis Cane vs. Steve Cantwell
PRELIMINARY CARD (un-televised)
- Vinny Magalhaes vs. Eliot Marshall
- Xavier Foupa-Pokam vs. Denis Kang
- Jason MacDonald vs. Nate Quarry
- Ed Herman vs. David Loiseau
- David Bielkheden vs. Mark Bocek
- Ryo Chonan vs. T.J. Grant
- Sam Stout vs. Matt Wiman
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I am interested to see if Loiseau has evolved at all. He was always a good fighter, but his ground game is horrible. It’s crazy how training parters of GSP in Canada are so hit and miss. Loiseau and Goulet just can’t seam to put together good winning streaks in the UFC.
You don’t know what your talking about. He put together three wins by KO or TKO to become the no. 1 contender to Rich Franklins belt. Beating the hell out of Evan Tanner in the process. WTF? Get you facts straight.
Are you serious?
He beat Gideon Ray, who was a good fighter, Charles McCarthy who has never been a great competitor and then he was losing his fight against Tanner until he scored a reversal and opened him up with cuts. Now I don’t say that isn’t a win, but cutting someone with your elbows is not the same as beating the hell out of someone.
He showed heart against Franklin for sure, and I’m not taking that away from him, but the guy is hit and miss with his fighting.
stout vs wiman should be on the main card. both those guys usually put on a good show and are talented enough to be the first televised fight on the ppv. if it were up to me, i’d move them up and put stann/kris or congo/hardonk on the prelims. more likely stann/kriss since they really haven’t done that much in the ufc. and cuz i think stann is extremely overrated. at any rate, enjoy your fifteen minutes leites, if it even lasts that long. i predict that after whooping ass, silva will sit back and wait to see who he fights between marquardt or maia.