UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz 5 November 2011 LG Arena, Birmingham, UK LIVE PRELIMINARY BOUTS: Facebook.com (1.30pm ET) LIVE MAIN CARD BOUTS: Rogers Sportsnet HD Canada (4.00pm ET) TAPE DELAYED MAIN CARD BOUTS: SpikeTV (8.00pm ET) MAIN EVENT 185lbs. Chris "The Crippler" Leben vs. Mark "The Filipino Wrecking Machine" Muñoz TELEVISED CARD 170lbs. Thiago "The Pitbull" Alves vs. Papy "Makambo" Abedi 135lbs. Brad "One Punch" Pickett vs. Renan Barão 205lbs. Anthony "The Hippo" Perosh vs. Cyrille "The Snake" Diabate 155lbs. Terry Etim vs. Eddie "Falo" Faaloloto FACEBOOK BOUTS 170lbs. John McGuire vs. Justin Edwards 265lbs. Philip de Fries vs. Rob "The Bear" Broughton 145lbs. Michihiro Omigawa vs. Jason "Shotgun" Young 170lbs. Che "Urban Monkey" Mills vs. Chris "C-Murder" Cope 135lbs. Chris "Kamikaze" Cariaso vs. Vaughan Lee
Re: UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz (Nov. 5th) Leben vs. Muñoz is scheduled for five rounds, the first five round non-title fight in UFC history.
Re: UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz (Nov. 5th) The preliminary bouts will be live on Facebook starting around 12.30pm ET, with the main card airing on SpikeTV via tape delay at 8pm ET. I suppose you could find a stream showing the ESPN UK broadcast at about 3.30pm ET as well.
Re: UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz (Nov. 5th) UFC 137 sure hasn't gotten much attention sandwiched between the debacle/spectacle that was UFC 137 and the big heavyweight fight on FOX. Can't really say the card sucks until after it has happened but the only real implication on this card is Munoz potentially making himself a top-5 fighter at middleweight win a win. A lot of guys have beaten Leben so I don't know if the fight is really a title eliminator considering Sonnen & now Belfort seem to be ahead of him in line regardless.
Re: UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz (Nov. 5th) As always with events on Spike, probably a good idea to record it and start watching at least an hour and a half after the start time so you can skip past the inundation of commercials and promotion they saturate it with. We used to delay by an hour and get caught up before the two hour mark there is so much filler.
Re: UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz (Nov. 5th) Rumour that Paul Taylor is injured and has pulled out of his fight with Anthony Njokouani. Edit: confirmed, Perosh-Diabate promoted to main card.
Re: UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz (Nov. 5th) For those in Canada, Sportsnet will be showing the fights live starting at 3pm ET. Guess we're going to have one of those "no spoiler" days on the board.
Re: UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz (Nov. 5th) Despite the lack of high profile fighters on the card, UFC 138 has broken LG Arena's ticket record.
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Re: UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz (Nov. 5th) Your monocle might pop out of your eye and into your champagne glass when I tell you Thiago Alves has missed weight.