{"id":2116,"date":"2009-08-04T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2009-08-04T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T06:37:20","slug":"inside-the-fight-game-latest-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Fight Game: Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2117\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2117\" href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=2117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2117\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2117\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tito-ortiz.jpg\" alt=\"Tito Ortiz Signs with UFC\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tito Ortiz Signs with UFC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->By George Hernandez<\/p>\n<p>-Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Tito Ortiz (15-6-1) has signed back with the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-Rising welterweight Brock Larson (26-2) will face Mike Pierce (9-1) at UFC Fight Night 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-Lightweights Jim Miller (14-2) and Thiago Tavares (14-3) along with welterweights Paul Daley (21-8-2) and Brian Foster (10-3) are set to meet at UFC 103.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-Joe Stevenson (30-10) and Spencer Fisher (23-4) are set for a lightweight battle, that is targeted for UFC 104.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-Three fights that were supposed to be on the Affliction card L.C. Davis (13-2) and Javier Vazquez (13-2) have agreed to meet on Aug 9 under the WEC banner, and Ben Rothwell (30-6) will take on Chase Gormley (6-0) at UFC 104. Also Renato &#8220;Babalu&#8221; Sobral (35-8) will defend his Strikeforce light heavyweight title against Gegard Mousasi (25-2-1) on Aug 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-After Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem pulled out of the fight due to injury, Fabricio Werdum (14-1) will stay on the Aug 15 Strikeforce card and face Mike Kyle (12-6-1). Kyle is coming off the biggest win of this career a knockout of Rafael &#8220;Feijao&#8221; Cavalcante.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-WEC has announced two bouts for WEC 43, Mark Hominick (16-8) will face Deividas Taurosevicius (10-3), and Anthony Njokuani (10-2) will take on Muhsin Corbbrey (7-3).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-With Rob Emerson (9-7) out of his bout against George Roop (9-4) due to injury, &#8220;TUF&#8221; veteran George Sotiropoulos (9-2) will take his place at UFC 101.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort (16-8) will battle for UFC Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin (25-4) in the main event at UFC 103.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Affliction Fighters new homes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-Paul Daley (WW), Ben Rothwell (HW), Chase Gormley (HW), Dan Lauzon (LW), Rafaello Oliveira (LW) and Vitor Belfort (MW) have signed with the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-Jay Hieron (WW), Gegard Mousasi (LHW), and Fedor Emelianenko will head to Strikeforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-LC Davis (FW) and Javier Vazquez (FW) will take their talent to the WEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}