Thursday, December 6, 2012

UFC on Fox 5's Means-Trujillo and Phan-Siver moved to FX prelims broadcast

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

With the loss of both Lavar Johnson vs. Brendan Schaub and Michael Chiesa vs. Marcus LeVesseur from this weekend's UFC on Fox 5 undercard, two fights have been promoted from the Facebook portion of the prelims to the three-hour FX broadcast.

The UFC has moved the lightweight bout between Tim Means and Abel Trujillo, as well as the featherweight bout between Nam Phan and Dennis Siver, to that broadcast, which will feature six fights in the lead up to the Fox broadcast Saturday night.

The card emanates from Seattle, Washington's KeyArena, the UFC's first trip there since March of last year. The full card coming Saturday night is below:

Fox Main Card (8PM ET)

Benson Henderson vs. Nate Diaz (Lightweight Championship)
Alexander Gustafsson vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
Rory MacDonald vs. B.J. Penn
Matt Brown vs. Mike Swick

FX Preliminary Card (5PM ET)

Yves Edwards vs. Jeremy Stephens
Raphael Assuncao vs. Mike Easton
Ramsey Nijem vs. Joe Proctor
Daron Cruickshank vs. Henry Martinez
Tim Means vs. Abel Trujillo
Nam Phan vs. Dennis Siver

Facebook Preliminary Bout (4:30PM ET)

John Albert vs. Scott Jorgensen

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_15185.shtml

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