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The official site for the Ultimate Fighting Championship has announced several more bouts for this Saturday’s “Ultimate Fighter” Season 9 Finale in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as the main event for the August 29th, UFC 102 event in Portland, Oregon.
As previously reported, former UFC light-heavyweight and heavyweight champion Randy Couture will take on the promotion’s former interim heavyweight champ, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, in the main event of this summer’s UFC 102 card. Couture (16-9) has not competed since last November at UFC 91, when his two fight winning streak came to an end against Brock Lesnar, who laid claim to the heavyweight title with a second round TKO stoppage.
Nogueira (31-5-1) is coming off a disappointing second round loss at the hands of Frank Mir at UFC 92 in December, after the former Pride champion defeated Heath Herring and Tim Sylvia in his first 2 UFC bouts.
In addition to the aforementioned UFC 102 main event, the promotion has also confirmed several more fights for this coming Saturday’s TUF 9 Finale. At lightweight, Melvin Guillard will take on Gleison Tibau, welterweight’s Brad Blackburn and Edgar Garcia will square off, as will light-heavyweights Mike Ciesnolevicz and Tomasz Drwal.
The event will be headlined by a lightweight tilt between Diego Sanchez and Clay Guida, and will also feature the finals from the current season of “The Ultimate Fighter.” Joe Stevenson vs. Nate Diaz and Kevin Burns vs. Chris Lytle are also scheduled for the event.
