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Couture Headlines UFC 105 on Spike TV
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Couture Headlines UFC 105 on Spike TV
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
by Sherdog.com Staff

For the first time in his 13-year career, Randy Couture will headline a UFC event on Spike TV. UFC 105, which will take place Nov. 14 at the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester, England, will air on same-day tape delay at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on the cable channel. Couture will face light heavyweight Brandon Vera.

Couture, 46, will make his return to the 205-pound division following his loss to heavyweight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 102 on Aug. 29 in Portland, Ore. It will be the third time the four-time Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling alternate has moved between the two UFC divisions. Couture has captured the UFC heavyweight title three times, the light heavyweight title twice, and also won an interim light heavyweight title in 2003.

Vera, 32, earned a unanimous decision against Krzysztof Soszynski at UFC 102, and collected a key win against former heavyweight champion Frank Mir before dropping to the light heavyweight division in July 2008. Vera is 3-1 in the 205-pound ranks.

Also on the card, British striker Dan Hardy will face off with Mike Swick in a welterweight title elimination bout, while homegrown favorite Michael Bisping will return in a middleweight contest against Denis Kang.
 

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