Now if you’re a mainstream MMA fan who doesn’t care about any fight unless it’s being called by Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg (…right, meaning only the UFC or the WEC– brandless version of course) then you might not give a sh-t about the above headline. If you’re an informed MMA observer then at first you might care, before thinking that it could very well be just a bunch of dudes that fought once in the UFC, got brutalized and then punted from the organization. That would be a completely fair assumption, as your local MMA card could very well be featuring some one of that description this coming weekend (not that there’s anything wrong with that of course).
Well, as it turns out, MMA Fighting is reporting that Australia’s Impact Fighting Championship has actually recruited not just one or two, but several more notable UFC and Pride vets to compete on its upcoming July 10th and July 18th events. Nope; that’s not a typo, the promotion is doing a card in Brisbane and then Sydney 8 days later. Cool. More importantly, according to the report, Karo Parisyan, Paulo Filho, Denis Kang, Jeff Monson, Murilo Bustamante, Ricco Rodriguez and Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou have all been signed to fight in July (Ken Shamrock, Josh Barnett, Carlos Newton and Pedro Rizzo were previously announced).
Now granted, the above list doesn’t exactly scream current UFC contenders (and it will be interesting to see if Filho actually gets out of Brazil) but hell, looks like good news for Aussie MMA fans no? Go boomerang tossing another day and check it out.