MMAWeekly.com is reporting that a rumored lightweight matchup between Sean Sherk and Tyson Griffin to take place at UFC 90 on Oct. 25 is expected to be finalized within the next several days.
The report, which cites sources from both camps, indicates that both parties have verbally agreed to accept the bout and that bout agreements will be signed and delivered by week’s end.
Sherk returned to action on May 24 at UFC 84 following a six-month suspension handed down by the California State Athletic Commission for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs following his successful UFC lightweight title victory over Hermes Franca at UFC 73 in July of 2007.
Sherk’s initial suspension was for a full year but was reduced to six months through a lengthy appeals process. Because he was not able to get the suspension overturned, the UFC was forced to strip Sherk of the lightweigh title.
Upon his Octagon return, Sherk was dismantled by new UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn, losing via TKO after the referee decided to stop the fight at the completion of the third round following a flurry of knees and punches from Penn.
Here’s a video from B.J. Penn’s website of what appears to be Penn, Sean Sherk, Heath Herring, Mark Delagrotte, Dana White, and a few others flying to some ridiculous mansion in Santa Barbara for a film session of a reality show on NBC Sports. Which reality show? That’s the big question. Oh, and Sean Sherk and B.J. Penn being buddy-buddy? Weird.
BodogFIGHT has made some changes to its taping schedule on August 24-25 in Vancouver. The most notable change is that former UFC heavyweight Assuerio Silva is no longer slated to fight…
Full Card (subject to change):
145 lbs & under
Sami Aziz (Sweden) vs. Hiroyuki Abe (Japan)
JR Sims (USA) vs. DJ Taiki (Japan)
155 lbs & under
Rodrigo Damm (Brazil) vs. Ryan Bow (Japan)
Per Eklund (Sweden) vs. Rafael Dias (USA)
Darren Elkins (USA) vs. Santino Defranco (USA)
Chris Ade (Canada) vs. Koji Oishi (Japan)
Chad George (USA) vs. Matteus Lahdesmaki (Finland)
170 lbs & under
Nick Thompson (USA) vs. Mark Weir (UK)
Piotr Jakaczynski (Sweden) vs. Dan Hornbuckle (USA)
Chris Wilson (USA) vs. Ray Steinbeiss (USA)
Diego Gonzales (Sweden) vs. Steve Berger (USA)
185 lbs & under
Tim McKenzie (USA) vs. Yuichi Nakanishi (Japan)
Kyacey Uscola (USA) vs. Gegard Mousasi (Netherlands)
Steve Byrnes (USA) vs. Alexander Shlemenko (Russia)
205 lbs & under
Antony Rea (France) vs. Steve Steinbeiss (USA)
Heavyweight
Todd Gouwenberg (Canada) vs. Constantin Gluhov (Russia)
Andrew Pederson (Canada) vs. Scott Lincoln (USA)
Dan Evensen (USA) vs. Dominic Richard (Canada)
Kristof Midoux (France) vs. Brad Morris (Australia)
MMAWeekly.com is reporting that a rumored lightweight matchup between Sean Sherk and Tyson Griffin to take place at UFC 90 on Oct. 25 is expected to be finalized within the next several days.
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