Wiman, Siver Ticketed for Summer Showdown
Mike Whitman Mar 17, 2011
The hits keep coming for UFC 132, as promotion officials on
Thursday announced that German striker Dennis Siver
(Pictured) will lock horns with wrestling specialist Matt Wiman at
the July 2 event.
The news comes in the wake of the announcement that B.J. Penn will rematch Jon Fitch in the event’s potential headliner, going down from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. UFC 132 will also play host to two more lightweight confrontations, as the red-hot Melvin Guillard squares off with Team Takedown representative Shane Roller and Evan Dunham looks to rebound from his first career defeat by dispatching skilled Aussie George Sotiropoulos.
Siver comes fresh off an impressive victory over the aforementioned Sotiropoulos on the Aussie’s home soil at UFC 127. Holding a noticeable advantage on the feet, the German easily shrugged off Sotiropoulos’ takedown attempts while rocking the jiu-jitsu specialist with hard punches en route to a unanimous decision victory. After beginning his UFC career in 2007 with an Octagon record of just 1-3, Siver has righted the ship, winning three straight bouts and seven of his last eight. His lone loss in the last two years came to hard-hitting Brit Ross Pearson one year ago in a “Fight of the Night” performance. A two-time “Knockout of the Night” winner, the 32-year-old kickboxer is a veteran of 25 pro fights and holds half of his career victories by submission.
Last seen battering jiu-jitsu ace Cole Miller in their January contest, Wiman has also won three straight bouts. Prior to dominating Miller at “Fight for the Troops 2,” the Tulsa Top Team product finished veteran Mac Danzig with a controversial guillotine choke in the first round. Thinking that Danzig had lost consciousness from the choke, referee Yves Lavigne waved the UFC 115 contest off, much to the chagrin of the incredulous and fully conscious Danzig. The pair was set to square off again at UFC Fight Night 22 in September, but Danzig was forced to withdraw from the bout with an injury. A former cast member of “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 5, Wiman has finished eight of his 13 career victims and has only been stopped once in his nearly seven years as a pro.
The news comes in the wake of the announcement that B.J. Penn will rematch Jon Fitch in the event’s potential headliner, going down from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. UFC 132 will also play host to two more lightweight confrontations, as the red-hot Melvin Guillard squares off with Team Takedown representative Shane Roller and Evan Dunham looks to rebound from his first career defeat by dispatching skilled Aussie George Sotiropoulos.
Siver comes fresh off an impressive victory over the aforementioned Sotiropoulos on the Aussie’s home soil at UFC 127. Holding a noticeable advantage on the feet, the German easily shrugged off Sotiropoulos’ takedown attempts while rocking the jiu-jitsu specialist with hard punches en route to a unanimous decision victory. After beginning his UFC career in 2007 with an Octagon record of just 1-3, Siver has righted the ship, winning three straight bouts and seven of his last eight. His lone loss in the last two years came to hard-hitting Brit Ross Pearson one year ago in a “Fight of the Night” performance. A two-time “Knockout of the Night” winner, the 32-year-old kickboxer is a veteran of 25 pro fights and holds half of his career victories by submission.
Last seen battering jiu-jitsu ace Cole Miller in their January contest, Wiman has also won three straight bouts. Prior to dominating Miller at “Fight for the Troops 2,” the Tulsa Top Team product finished veteran Mac Danzig with a controversial guillotine choke in the first round. Thinking that Danzig had lost consciousness from the choke, referee Yves Lavigne waved the UFC 115 contest off, much to the chagrin of the incredulous and fully conscious Danzig. The pair was set to square off again at UFC Fight Night 22 in September, but Danzig was forced to withdraw from the bout with an injury. A former cast member of “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 5, Wiman has finished eight of his 13 career victims and has only been stopped once in his nearly seven years as a pro.
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