UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on June 12, 2010 at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Official fight card
Main card
* Light Heavyweight bout: United States Chuck Liddell vs. United States Rich Franklin
* Heavyweight bout: Croatia Mirko Filipović vs. United States Patrick Barry
* Welterweight bout: Brazil Paulo Thiago vs. Denmark Martin Kampmann
* Heavyweight bout: United States Ben Rothwell vs. Netherlands Gilbert Yvel
* Welterweight bout: United States Carlos Condit vs. Canada Rory MacDonald
Preliminary card (Spike TV)
* Lightweight bout: United States Tyson Griffin vs. United States Evan Dunham
* Lightweight bout: United States Mac Danzig vs. United States Matt Wiman
Preliminary card
* Middleweight bout: Canada David Loiseau vs. Brazil Mario Miranda
* Welterweight bout: England James Wilks vs. Germany Peter Sobotta
* Welterweight bout: Brazil Ricardo Funch vs. Canada Claude Patrick
* Welterweight bout: United States Mike Pyle vs. United States Jesse Lennox
Background
This will be the fourth UFC event to be held in Canada, following UFC 83, UFC 97 and UFC 113 and the first UFC event held in British Columbia since they passed a bill to sanction MMA, on December 17, 2009. For a few days, this event location was in jeopardy because there are still no regulations in place to promote the sport professionally within Vancouver and Cincinnati was rumoured to be a possible location for moving this event. However, the problems were resolved and Dana White confirmed that the show will be going ahead in Vancouver on the scheduled date.
The main event was tentatively set to be a third bout featuring Ultimate Fighter coaches and former UFC Light Heayvweight Champions Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. In March, rumours began to circulate that Rich Franklin would replace Ortiz as Liddell's opponent, after Ortiz had supposedly withdrawn from the fight. However, Dana White denied this via his Twitter account on March 13th, 2010, noting that Liddell vs. Ortiz was still set to be the main event, while Franklin would face Randy Couture at an event later in 2010.
Despite confirming Liddell/Ortiz 3 would in fact be the main event for the card, the main event was confirmed on April 12 as Liddell vs. Franklin.
The on-again, off-again rematch between Thiago Alves and Jon Fitch, first scheduled for UFC 107 then UFC 111 and then UFC 115 has been moved again, to UFC 117.
Recently, the Ben Rothwell vs. Gilbert Yvel fight replaced Tyson Griffin vs. Evan Dunham on the main card. Griffin vs. Dunham will now be shown on the preliminaries aired on Spike TV.
UFC record broken
Tickets for UFC 115 sold out within 30 minutes of going on sale breaking the previous record set by UFC 83.
