Three more bouts surfaced Wednesday afternoon for three upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship events.
A bantamweight bout between Will Campuzano (8-3) vs. Chris Cariaso (10-2) will take the last spot on the upcoming UFC Fight for the Troops 2 event this month. While a middleweight bout between Nick Catone (8-2) and Dan Miller (14-4) looks set for UFC 128 in New Jersey. And UFC featherweights Pablo Garza (10-1) and Yves Jabouin (15-6) have agreed to meet at the upcoming UFC 129 event in Toronto.
MMAjunkie.com was first to report the Garza vs. Jabouin and the Capmuzano vs. Cariaso bouts. While news of the Catone vs. Miller match was first broke by MMADiehards.com.
UFC Fight for the Troops 2, or UFC Fight Night 23, will take place on Jan. 22 at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. UFC 128: Shogun vs. Evans is set to take place on March 19th at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. UFC 129 will take place on April 30th in the promotions first ever visit to Toronto, Ontario. at the Rogers Centre.
Campuzano will look for the win to save his job with the UFC as he dropped his debut bout against Nick Pace at the TUF 12 Finale in December. So far in 2010 he’s 2-2. Cariaso is in the same situation having lost his last bout at WEC 53 to Renan Barão by submission. The loss ended a four fight win streak putting the former Strikeforce fighter at 1-1 under the WEC banner.
Catone bounced back from two losses by defeating Jesse Forbes by split decision in his last fight at UFN 20 in January of last year. He’s had a bit of a rough year after injuries forced him out of bouts at UFC 113 against John Salter and UFN 22 against Tomasz Drwal. Miller, older brother of Jim Miller who is also scheduled to fight at UFC 128, has won two in a row since a three fight losing skid. He earned a split decision over Joe Doerksen in December at UFC 124 and stopped John Salter at UFC 118 via guillotine choke.
Garza made his UFC debut at the TUF 12 Finale knocking out Fredson Paixão with a highlight reel flying knee. He made his Zuffa debut in his previous fight dropping his first fight to Chinese fighter Zhang Tie Quan at WEC 51. His opponent Jabouin makes his UFC debut after three bouts in the WEC. He earned a unanimous decision win over Brandon Visher at WEC 52 to erase a two fight losing skid.