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UFC NEWS: With Lesnar-Carwin pushed to January, Ortiz vs. Griffin II moved to headliner
Oct 26, 2009 - 7:51:31 PM
UFC NEWS: With Lesnar-Carwin pushed to January, Ortiz vs. Griffin II moved to headliner
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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

With the loss of the Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin headlining bout for the UFC Heavyweight Championship at UFC 106, the organization announced via UFC.com that the night's co-headliner has been bumped up to the night's main event.

Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin will square off in a rematch of a 2006 bout that saw Ortiz edge a razor thin split decision against Griffin in a bout that many observers gave to Forrest.

The card is still strong from top to bottom, though the loss of the Heavyweight Title bout definitely depletes the draw for this pay-per-view. The full rumored card for the event is below:

-Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz
-Luiz Cane vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
-Dustin Hazelett vs. Karo Parisyan
-Phil Baroni vs. Amir Sadollah
-Marcus Davis vs. Ben Saunders
-Kendall Grove vs. Jake Rosholt
-Brian Foster vs. Brock Larson
-Paulo Thiago vs. Jacob Volkmann
-Fabricio Camoes vs. Caol Uno
-Jason Dent vs. George Sotiropoulos

Link to UFC.com announcement

Penick's Analysis: Well, the buyrate possibilities for this event went from in the 1.5 million high end to half that at best. The Ortiz-Griffin rematch is an exciting return bout for Ortiz, but the fact of the matter is both he and Griffin lost their last bouts, he hasn't fought in a year and a half, and in Griffin's last bout he was picked apart by Anderson Silva worse than he's ever been in his career. People want to see this fight, and the undercard is very strong, but as the headliner it does come off kind of weak. They don't have much of a choice, however, with less than a month until the event.

[Tito Ortiz photo credit Wade Keller (c) MMATorch]


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