One of the most well-traveled journeymen in mixed martial arts will fight for the first time in 2014 at UFC 178. The promotion announced on Sunday via its official website that a welterweight fight between Brian Ebersole and John “Doomsday” Howard has been added to the stacked September 27th event in Las Vegas.
Ebersole, who trains out of Tiger Muay Thai, made his UFC debut in 2011 after 62 professional fights and won his first four bouts before suffering back-to-back decision losses to James Head and Rick Story.
Doomsday made his return to the UFC a successful one last August when he won a unanimous decision bout over Uriah Hall in his hometown of Boston. That middleweight fight was less than spectacular, and Howard made the drop back down to welterweight for his next outing.
The Wai Kru product followed that up with another decision victory over Siyar Bahadurzada but came up short against Ryan LaFlare in Abu Dhabi this past April. Howard was competitive in the fight until an accidental low blow visibly affected his performance. He was campaigning for a rematch with LaFlare, but the promotion decided against that, in favor of Howard facing off with Ebersole instead.
The welterweight fight is the latest addition to the robust UFC 178 card, which is headlined by the light heavyweight title fight rematch between champion Jon Jones and Alexander Gustafsson. The event also features the long-awaited returns of top bantamweight contenders Dominick Cruz and Cat Zingano.
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