6 Bouts Official for UFC 128
Brian Knapp Jan 9, 2011
Kamal Shalorus | Dave Mandel/Sherdog.com
Surging lightweight contender Jim Miller will lock horns with World Extreme Cagefighting veteran Kamal Shalorus in a featured matchup at UFC 128 “Shogun vs. Evans” on March 19 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Half a dozen fights are now official for the event, which will air live on pay-per view.
An AMA Fight Club representative, Miller will carry a six-fight winning streak into the match. The 27-year-old Sparta, N.J., native last appeared at UFC 124 in December, when he submitted Brazilian prospect Charles Oliveira with a first-round kneebar at the Bell Centre in Montreal. A Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, Miller has delivered more than half (11) of his 19 career victories by submission. The only two blemishes on his resume have come in unanimous decision defeats to current UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar and the unbeaten Gray Maynard. Miller owns a stellar 8-1 mark inside the Octagon.
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A light heavyweight title bout pairing champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua with the world-ranked Rashad Evans will headline UFC 128, along with a pivotal bantamweight duel pitting former WEC titleholders Urijah Faber and Eddie Wineland against one another. The event will also play host to a pair of lightweight matchups -- Edson Mendes Barboza Jr. vs. Anthony Njokuani and Kurt Pellegrino vs. Gleison Tibau -- and a key bantamweight battle between Joseph Benavidez and Ian Loveland.
UFC 128 “Shogun vs. Evans”
Saturday, March 19
Prudential Center
Newark, N.J.
UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
Mauricio Rua vs. Rashad Evans
Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland
Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus
Edson Mendes Barboza Jr. vs. Anthony Njokuani
Kurt Pellegrino vs. Gleison Tibau
Joseph Benavidez vs. Ian Loveland
* Nate Marquardt vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama
* Brendan Schaub vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
* Ricardo Almeida vs. Mike Pyle
* Dan Miller vs. Nick Catone
* Luis Artur Cane Jr. vs. Karlos Vemola
* Not Official
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