The Ultimate Fighting Championship has confirmed the remaining bouts for the promotion’s upcoming UFC 100 event, which will be held July 11th, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The card will feature 2 title fights, as Brock Lesnar will defend his heavyweight belt against interim champion Frank Mir, while Georges St. Pierre will look to retain his welterweight championship vs. Thiago Alves. The card will also include a middleweight bout between season 9 TUF coaches, Michael Bisping and Dan Henderson.
At welterweight, the highly regarded Jon Fitch (18-3) will look to avenge AKA teammate Josh Koscheck’s loss to Paulo Thiago (11-0) in February, as he’ll take on the undefeated Brazilian. Fitch has not competed since January, when he worked is way to a Unanimous Decision victory over Akihiro Gono.
Noted Japanese middleweight Yoshihiro Akiyama (12-1) will make his UFC debut against Alan Belcher. Akiyama is coming off a submission victory over Masanori Tonooka at Dream 6 last September, while Belcher (14-5) submitted Denis Kang at January's UFC 93 in his last bout, in one of the fighter’s biggest wins to date.
At lightweight, Mac Danzig (18-6-1) will look to end his two fight losing skid against Jim Miller, as the former TUF winner has lost back-to-back fights against Josh Neer and Clay Guida. Miller is coming off a decision loss to Gray Maynard at UFC 96 in March, after the IFL veteran won is first two Octagon bouts.
Other fights which have been announced for the UFC 100 card include: Jon Jones (8-0) vs. Jake O’Brien (11-2), CB Dollaway (9-2) vs. Tom Lawlor (5-1-1) and Matt Grice (10-2) vs. Shannon Gugerty (11-3).
