While most MMA eyes are fixated on Saturday’s UFC 137 event in Las Vegas, the plant’s largest MMA promotion was busy adding another bout to their “UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida” fight card.
On Tuesday, a middleweight scrap between Jared Hamman (Pictured) and Constantinos Philippou was announced for the December 10th show.
Hamman holds a 13-3 professional record and was last seen posting a TKO victory over C.B. Dollaway at “UFC on Versus 5” in August.
Philippou owns a 8-2 (1 NC) mark and beat veteran Jorge Rivera by split decision at UFC 133.
The Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada will host the extravaganza. Light heavyweight champ Jon Jones will defend his throne against Lyoto Machida in the night’s featured attraction.
The pay-per-view broadcast begins live at 9PM ET/6PM PT.
Here are the athletes expected to appear up north:
Preliminary Bouts:
Yves Jabouin vs. Walel Watson
Constantinos Philippou vs. Jared Hamman
John Cholish vs. Mitch Clarke
Nik Lentz vs. Mark Bocek
Rich Attonito vs. Claude Patrick
Dennis Hallman vs. John Makdessi
Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Igor Pokrajac
Main Bouts:
Chan Sung “The Korean Zombie” Jung vs. Mark Hominick
Tito Ortiz vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Brian Ebersole vs. Rory MacDonald
Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Lyoto Machida vs. Jon Jones (UFC Light Heavyweight Champion)