Putting recent speculation to rest, the UFC officially announced yesterday that Kimbo Slice will indeed face off with his TUF 10 castmate Matt Mitrione at UFC 113 (May 8th, Montreal). Slice is coming off a lackluster unanimous decision win against Houston Alexander at the TUF 10 finale, while Mitrione made his professional MMA debut at the same event, knocking out Marcus "Big Baby" Jones in the second round of their fight.
The fact that the Slice/Mitrione match was briefly removed from the UFC’s website, as well as the UFC’s previous vagueness with Mitrione, makes it seem like the UFC was actually considering Kimbo as an opponent for James Toney, but that freak-show will have to wait for another day. At the moment, Toney’s first opponent in the Octagon and the date of his debut are still question marks.
UFC 113 will be headlined by the light-heavyweight championship rematch between Lyoto Machida and Mauricio Rua; the current lineup is after the jump.
MAIN CARD
Lyoto Machida vs. Mauricio Rua (for light-heavyweight title)
Josh Koscheck vs. Paul Daley (WW)
Sam Stout vs. Jeremy Stephens (LW)
Kimbo Slice vs. Matt Mitrione (HW)
Patrick Cote vs. Alan Belcher (MW)
PRELIMINARY CARD
Tom Lawlor vs. Tim Credeur (MW)
Marcus Davis vs. Jonathan Goulet (WW)
Yoshiyuki Yoshida vs. Mike Guymon (WW)
TJ Grant vs. Johny Hendricks (WW)
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UFC is fine, better than all the rest but all we get is second rate and that is ok with you huh?
hey maybe James Toney will fight Brock for the biggest joke of MMA belt, now won't that be worth a PPV!