The following is the card for this Saturday’s highly-anticipated UFC 52 PPV. The main event, as most of you probably know by now, is what some are calling the most anticipated rematch in the history of UFC, as Randy Couture goes one-on-one with Chuck Liddell and hopes to defend his Light Heavyweight Championship belt:
*George St. Pierre vs. Jason Miller
*Matt Lindland vs. Travis Lutter
*Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg for the welterweight title
*Renato Babalu Sobral vs. Travis Wiuff (if there’s enough time)
*Randy Couture vs. Chuck Liddell for the light heavyweight title
Dave Meltzer is reporting that these are the planned dark matches for the event:
*John Mash vs. Mike Van Arsdale
*Joe Riggs vs. Ivan Salaverry
*Joe Doerkson vs. Patrick Cote
UFC President, Dana White, claims that a $3 million gate will be made off the PPV, which is still said to be a ridiculous number. Although it’s clear that there will be a lot of money made off of this show, the number is farfetched. UFC does a lot of last minute walk-up business, so it’ll depend on how well that goes. There’s still a little less than 1,000 tickets left for the event on Saturday. It should be a good fight.
According to MGM Grand, Couture is -220 and Liddell is +170, and Hughes is -200 and Trigg is +160 in the lines up. Only those two matches are on there.
Benji “Razor” Radach is once again forced to rest and stay away from any fights due to an injury. This one being more severe, as apparently he found out that he has a bulging disc in his neck that will require surgery. That takes him out of action for an year. We wish him a speedy recovery.
David Terrel is still in Brazil and according to several websites, he’s very close to signing with Brazilian Top Team, which came as a surprise to his former coach – Cesar Gracie.
Eddie
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