<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>According to MMAWeekly’s rumors section, “The African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjouwill face fellow judoka Kazuhiro Nakamura at May’s UFC 84. Sokoudjou burst onto the MMA scene last year with two devastating knockout wins over highly touted fighters,Antonio Rogerio Noguieraand Ricardo Arona in the now defunct Pride FC. However in his recent UFC debut at UFC 79: Nemesis, he was defeated by Lyoto Machida by 2nd round arm-triangle choke. Kazuhiro Nakamura has fought a who’s who of Pride veterans, which is not a surprise considering that prior to UFC 76 it was the only organisation he had fought for. He had mixed results in Pridegoing 11-6 in his time there. Just like Sokoudjou, Nakamura’s last defeat was at the hands of Machida at the UFC 76: Knockout. If the rumor is true, UFC 84 is shaping up to be a very interesting and entertaining card. The event will be headlined by a lightweight title fight between UFC lightweight champion, B.J. Penn and former UFC lightweight champion, Sean Sherk. The rumored fight card is as follows: B.J. Penn vs. Sean Sherk (UFC lightweight title) Tito Ortiz vs. Lyoto Machida Wanderlei Silva vs. Keith Jardine Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Rashad Evans vs. Thiago Silva Wilson Gouveia vs. Goran Reljic Ivan Salaverry vs. Rousimar Palhares Jason Tan vs. Dong-hyun Kim Terry Etim vs. Jeremy Stephens</div> good golly look at the 205ers on this card!!! aside from Sherk/Penn the entire televised card should be LHW's!! I hope the UFC continues this trend and does it with other weight classes .. besides the rather pathetic HW division of course
82, 83, and 84 are all looking like nice cards. Looks like Joe Silva is starting to make use of his stacked deck.
yeah this is getting back to what the cards used to look like. hopefully the PPV buys will stay strong and they can actually go out and sign some more top talent in the HW, LW and WW divisions.
