Tony
21-08-2009, 10:56
UFC 104: Ben Rothwell vs Cain Velasquez booked for Oct. 24 (http://mmamania.com/2009/08/20/ufc-104-ben-rothwell-vs-cain-velasquez-booked-for-oct-24/)
By: Jesse Holland (http://mmamania.com/author/jesse/)
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On the heels of Shane Carwin being scratched from UFC 104 to challenge Brock Lesnar for the division title in November, MMAmania.com (http://mmamania.com/wp-admin/www.mmamania.com) (www.mmamania.com (http://mmamania.com/wp-admin/www.mmamania.com)) has learned that former IFL and Affliction heavyweight standout Ben Rothwell has agreed to step in for “The Engineer” versus Cain Velasquez on Oct. 24.
Rothwell is coming off a dominating technical knockout win over Chris Guillen at Adrenaline II back in Dec. 2008. Prior to that, “Big” was riding a career high 13-fight win streak before running into former UFC heavyweight champion, Andrei Arlovski, during the inaugural Affliction event in July 2008 .
Before the loss, he had defeated former UFC champion Ricco Rodriguez, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 8 standout Krzysztof Soszynski, Roy “Big Country” Nelson and others.
The Miletich Fighting Systems (MFS)-trained fighter was on course to throw hands with Chase Gormley at the same event however, the UFC quickly shuffled the deck after Carwin’s departure.
Continue reading ‘UFC 104: Ben Rothwell vs Cain Velasquez booked for Oct. 24′ (http://mmamania.com/2009/08/20/ufc-104-ben-rothwell-vs-cain-velasquez-booked-for-oct-24/#more-14667)
By: Jesse Holland (http://mmamania.com/author/jesse/)
http://mmamania.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/rothwell-velasquez.jpg
On the heels of Shane Carwin being scratched from UFC 104 to challenge Brock Lesnar for the division title in November, MMAmania.com (http://mmamania.com/wp-admin/www.mmamania.com) (www.mmamania.com (http://mmamania.com/wp-admin/www.mmamania.com)) has learned that former IFL and Affliction heavyweight standout Ben Rothwell has agreed to step in for “The Engineer” versus Cain Velasquez on Oct. 24.
Rothwell is coming off a dominating technical knockout win over Chris Guillen at Adrenaline II back in Dec. 2008. Prior to that, “Big” was riding a career high 13-fight win streak before running into former UFC heavyweight champion, Andrei Arlovski, during the inaugural Affliction event in July 2008 .
Before the loss, he had defeated former UFC champion Ricco Rodriguez, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 8 standout Krzysztof Soszynski, Roy “Big Country” Nelson and others.
The Miletich Fighting Systems (MFS)-trained fighter was on course to throw hands with Chase Gormley at the same event however, the UFC quickly shuffled the deck after Carwin’s departure.
Continue reading ‘UFC 104: Ben Rothwell vs Cain Velasquez booked for Oct. 24′ (http://mmamania.com/2009/08/20/ufc-104-ben-rothwell-vs-cain-velasquez-booked-for-oct-24/#more-14667)