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[Event] UFC 145 - Jones vs. Evans - Apr 21
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Author:  Dent [ Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:40 am ]
Post subject:  [Event] UFC 145 - Jones vs. Evans - Apr 21
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UFC 145 Jones vs. Evans is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by Ultimate Fighting Championship on April 21, 2012 at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.


Official fight card

Main card

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: United States Jon Jones (c) vs. United States Rashad Evans
Welterweight bout: Canada Rory MacDonald vs. England Che Mills
Heavyweight bout: United States Brendan Schaub vs. United States Ben Rothwell
Bantamweight bout: United States Miguel Torres vs. United States Michael McDonald
Featherweight bout: Canada Mark Hominick vs. United States Eddie Yagin
Lightweight bout: Canada Mark Bocek vs. Canada John Alessio

Preliminary card (FX)

Heavyweight bout: United States Travis Browne vs. United States Chad Griggs
Welterweight bout: United States Matt Brown vs. United States Stephen Thompson
Lightweight bout: Canada John Makdessi vs. Nigeria Anthony Njokuani
Lightweight bout: United States Mac Danzig vs. Mexico Efrain Escudero


Preliminary card (Facebook)

Welterweight bout: United States Keith Wisniewski vs. Canada Chris Clements
Featherweight bout: United States Marcus Brimage vs. Venezuela Maximo Blanco



Background

The event was originally expected to take place on March 24, 2012 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, but due to scheduling complications, the event was cancelled.

UFC Primetime will return to promote the main event.

Matt Wiman was expected to face Mark Bocek at this event, but was forced off the card with an injury and replaced by the returning John Alessio.


Jan 18 - Updated
Jan 22 - updated fightcard & background
Jan 27 - updated fightcard & background (Jon Jones etc)
Feb 15 - updated fightcard & background (several changes)
Mar 19 - updated fightcard & background
Mar 30 - updated fightcard
Apr 03 - updated fightcard
Apr 10 - updated fightcard & background
Author:  Dent [ Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - postponed
Facing a main event quandary, the UFC has postponed its March show in Montreal.

UFC 145 was scheduled for March 24 at the Bell Centre. But the UFC has shelved it for the time being, citing complications in scheduling.

"In the end it was all about making sure that we had a championship-calibre card for a championship-calibre city," Tom Wright, the UFC's director of Canadian operations, told The Canadian Press on Tuesday.

Wright said he expects Montreal will still stage a show later this year.

Most of the fights announced for the March show will be shifted to a card slated for April in Atlanta.

The UFC had already announced eight fights for the card, but there were no main event or co-main events.

A serious knee injury to welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre removed one obvious main event possibility. St-Pierre is a Montreal native who has already headlined two shows at the Bell Centre and one in Toronto.

The 30-year-old champion underwent knee surgery last month after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament and a small tear to his internal meniscus during a wrestling training session. He is expected to be out most of 2012.

The UFC has also expanded, looking to schedule 38 cards around the world a year.

"It's a complicated process," said Wright.

Anderson Silva is one example. The middleweight champion has also been injured and the UFC is looking to save him for a big splash in his native Brazil.

Light-heavyweight title-holder Jon (Bones) Jones is taking some time off after a busy 2011, featherweight champion Jose Aldo just fought in Brazil and lightweight champ Frankie Edgar is in action in Japan next month.

Alistair Overeem is next up to challenge heavyweight title-holder Junior Dos Santos but the big Dutchman fought Dec. 30. And bantamweight champ Dominick Cruz is tied up as coach of "The Ultimate Fighter" reality TV show.

Add it all up and Montreal is out of luck for the time being, despite its admirable record as a UFC fight town.

Canadians slated to fight in March at the Bell Centre were featherweight Mark (The Machine) Hominick, lightweight Mark Bocek and John (The Bull) Makdessi, and welterweights Rory (Ares) MacDonald and Chris (The Menace) Clements.

Montreal hosted the first ever UFC show in Canada — UFC 83 in April 2008. At the time it was the organization's fastest sellout and biggest attendance.

The UFC subsequently held shows in Vancouver and Toronto with the March show in Montreal slated to be its ninth in Canada (there have been four in Montreal, two in Vancouver and two in Toronto).

Wright said the decision to postpone had nothing to do with the local commission (they have bumped heads in the past but not recently) or venue, adding "Montreal has always been a great UFC city for us."

"Bell Centre is one of our best venues across the whole UFC circuit," he added.

Vancouver has been out of favour in recent months because of UFC concerns with the demands of city officials. Wright is lobbying for a provincial athletic commission to sidestep that problem.

Toronto remains another favourite Canadian city but just hosted an event in December. The UFC has also been scouting other venues north of the border, looking to expand its options.

Notes: The Mark Munoz-Chael Sonnen fight scheduled to air on FOX on Jan. 28 has been cancelled. UFC president Dana White tweeted that Munoz is injured and will be replaced on the card by Michael Bisping. The winner will fight middleweight champion Anderson Silva.

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Author:  Dent [ Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - Atlanta - Apr 21
Jan 22 - updated fightcard & background
Jan 27 - updated fightcard & background (Jon Jones etc)
Author:  Dent [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - Atlanta - Apr 21
Feb 15 - updated fightcard & background (several changes)
Author:  NiN505 [ Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - Jones vs. Evans - Apr 21
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Author:  Dent [ Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - Jones vs. Evans - Apr 21
Mar 19 - updated fightcard & background
Author:  NiN505 [ Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - Jones vs. Evans - Apr 21
Mar 30 - fightcard updated (Torres-McDonald on PPV slot, filling 6 fight main card)
Author:  NiN505 [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - Jones vs. Evans - Apr 21
Apr 03 - updated fightcard (Wiman injured, Alessio replaced)
Author:  Dent [ Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - Jones vs. Evans - Apr 21
Apr 10 - updated fightcard & background
Author:  NiN505 [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: [Event] UFC 145 - Jones vs. Evans - Apr 21
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
Champ Jon Jones (205) vs. Rashad Evans (204)
Rory MacDonald (169.5) vs. Che Mills (170)
Ben Rothwell (263) vs. Brendan Schaub (237)
Michael McDonald (135) vs. Miguel Torres (135.5)
Mark Hominick (145.5) vs. Eddie Yagin (144.5)
John Alessio (155.5) vs. Mark Bocek (155)

PRELIMINARY CARD (FX)
Travis Browne (250) vs. Chad Griggs (228)
Matt Brown (171) vs. Stephen Thompson (171)
John Makdessi (158)* vs. Anthony Njokuani (156)
Mac Danzig (155) vs. Efrain Escudero (156)

PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
Chris Clements (169) vs. Keith Wisniewski (170.5)
Maximo Blanco (146) vs. Marcus Brimage (145)
* - Surrenders 20 percent of purse as a fine
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