With the announcement of the UFC holding an event on April 17 and now news that the rumored Mike Swick vs. Matt Serra fight is off due to Mike Swick's injury there has been much speculation on what fights will run on the event.
Despite rumors from Carmichael Dave on The Underground that James Toney would make his MMA debut against Kimbo Slice on the event, I have heard from a solid source that the most likely option right now is to move the scheduled Kimbo Slice / Matt Mitrione fight from UFC 113 up a few weeks to the Spike TV card.
Remember, the last time that Kimbo fought on Spike he pulled in over 5 million viewers. It would be a smart move by the UFC to move an attraction type fight to that card and not have to fire a huge bomb like Toney/Kimbo. It should eat into the Strikeforce rating plenty even without any other huge fights on the card, but there is still a possibility of Kimbo/Mitrione being a co-main event with a slightly more "meaningful" fight on top of the card.
SB Nation will have more on these developments as information becomes available.
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what does everyone think of this for the card.
I think this would be a good card…..what do you guys think
Thiago Silva vs. Rich Franklin
Matt Serra vs. Paulo Thiago
Gray Maynard vs. George stro…..austrailian dude.
Kimbo vs. Matt Mitrione
by bubblebeejackson on Mar 5, 2010 3:42 PM EST reply actions
good, i think that’s a tough fight for rich and i doubt george sotiropolous can make that quick of a turnaround, sure he didn’t get cut or ko’d or anything, but still, maynard isn’t a slouch, he would need some time to prepare for such an important fight in his career (could lead to a title shot).
serra vs. paulo thiago would also be a very one sided fight, very tough matchup for serra imo, swick sounds jsut about right for serra, too bad he’s having surgery.
by kanodogg on Mar 5, 2010 8:33 PM EST up reply actions
oh this to.
I heard wandys gonna fight sexama. also
by bubblebeejackson on Mar 5, 2010 4:07 PM EST reply actions
niiice
I’ve edited the wiki page for this event with this page as the source ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night_22
by Cory Danielson on Mar 6, 2010 2:56 AM EST reply actions
would be a great fight
this is a great opportunity for Kimbo to show how much he’s evolved as a mixed martial artist. how huge would it be if Kimbo put Toney away by submitting him.
by MikeOne on Mar 7, 2010 2:37 AM EST reply actions
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