ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP president Dana White confirmed a date and venue overnight for the meeting of UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and interim title-holder Conor McGregor.
Arguably the most-anticipated bout in mixed martial arts history is set to take place at UFC 194 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, 12 December.
There had been speculation that undefeated women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey would be putting her belt on the line on the same card. However, while White has ruled that out, it does look like there will be another title bout on the UFC 194 bill instead.
According to MMA writer Jeremy Botter, who reports for Bleacher Report, UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum will be defending his belt for the first time on the same night.
Werdum caused a major shock when he submitted Cain Velasquez at UFC 188 in June, but Botter says Velasquez will be handed a rematch on 12 December, while Rousey versus Miesha Tate and middleweight champion Chris Weidman versus Luke Rockhold will both take place on 2 January.
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There’s been no official announcement on that from the UFC as of yet, but Vegas-based Botter is one of MMA’s most highly-regarded reporters whose information is rarely wide of the mark. He also insisted that talk of a Werdum/Velasquez rematch at UFC 194 is not merely a rumour.
Last month’s UFC 189 in Las Vegas, which was headlined by Conor McGregor’s interim featherweight title victory against Chad Mendes, was described by many as the biggest event in the history of the UFC.
However, if UFC 194 is to feature McGregor/Aldo and Werdum/Velasquez title bouts, the organisation may well surpass that before the year is even out.
Which other bouts would you like to see added to UFC 194? Let us know in the comments section below…
Interesting that Robbie has been released. With us playing against the USA you would have thought he would have been eager to be involved.
LA are still in the playoffs for the MLS. The US players still involved in the playoffs left their squad after the Colombia game. If he was to pick up a knock in a friendly, it’d create some needless club/country tension.
Ah ok that makes sense so.
too gutted to care!
Ger, your optimism has obviously waned! How were you so optimistic? I’m not knocking it. But like Gibson hadn’t played 90 mins in ages, I was so concerned for our midfield, and that’s where games are won. Scotland have players who have competed in the champions league. And I thought they were very impressive against Germany compared to us
Indeed and we could let a few more of them home.
We should practice some attacking football against the USA, might come in handy for the rest of the group games if we want to score goals…
Attacking football? we don’t have the players unfortunately.
Leave it there Robbie you’re a legend, the Boss … You’re in the history books and our hearts .. There’s only one Robbie Keane!
Excitement builds for this one. Them more sleeps
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Stop spoof
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Bollix my mate from Nigeria is sending over €3million all I have to do is give my bank details
Piss off jackie
no i’m to broke this week i got the pikeys to fix the a slate on the roof and it ended up costing 2 grand so jackie will have to wait