UFC fighter Cain Velasquez (R) hits UFC fighter Ben Rothwell (L) up against the fence during their Heavyweight bout at UFC 104: Machida vs. Shogun at Staples Center on October 24, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Velasquez won the fight by way of TKO. (Getty Images)more pics »UFC puts spotlight on light side this weekend: MMA/Fighting Insider
By Plain Dealer staff
December 02, 2009, 7:30AM
Light heavyweights and lightweights are featured on Saturday's season ending of the Ultimate Fighting Championship's "The Ultimate Fighter" series.
Undefeated
Jon Jones (9-0) have on heavyweight
Matt Hamill (8-2) and lightweight
Frankie Edgar (10-1) have on 155-pound adversary
Kurt Pellegrino (20-4).
Jones, 22, has won his previous three bouts below the UFC banner, including a UFC 94 sway opposition to
Stephan Bonnar a twelvemonth ago. Hamill, a three-time collegiate wrestling champion, scored a first-round knockout of
Mark Munoz at UFC 96 in March.
Both fighters are out of upstate New York, hence bragging rights will be on the delineate when they square off at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. The Spike TV telecast begins at 9 p.m.
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Next: UFC 107 is set for Memphis, Tenn., on Dec. 12 as lightweight champion
B.J. Penn (14-5-1) faces
Diego Sanchez (23-2) at 155 pounds in the main leave. The fresh twelvemonth starts with UFC 108 on Jan. 2 in Las Vegas with airy heavyweight
Rashad Evans (18-1-1) having on
Thiago Silva (14-1) at 205 pounds.
An elbow injury to Antonio
Rodrigo Nogueiro forced a postponement of his contest contrary to
Cain Velasquez, which had been the headliner. Strike it up: Showtime's "Strikeforce" series winds aloft the fiscal year Dec. 19 with a rematch amidst weak champion Josh "The Punk" Thomson (16-2) and interim champ Gilbert "El Nino" Melendez (16-2).
Thomson took the title out of Melendez in June 2008, nonetheless has been out of commission for added than a fiscal year by reason of of cracked bones in his left limb.
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