NEW ORLEANS – While fast-rising welterweight contender Jake Ellenberger needed just 53 seconds to dispatch of recent UFC
title challenger Jake Shields, it was hardly the
easiest victory of his career.
In fact, Ellenberger said, it was quite difficult to put aside his
compassion for Shields, whose father passed away just three weeks prior
to Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 25 meeting.
But Ellenberger did exactly that, netting his fifth-consecutive UFC win.
Now the 26-year-old
is confident he could provide a stern test for the winner of an upcoming title fight between Georges St-Pierre and top
contender Carlos Condit.