TJ Dillashaw
The Ultimate Fighting Championship added three new bouts to this July’s upcoming UFC on FUEL TV 4 event featuring two bantamweight and one flyweight division match.
Bouts between TUF 14 finalist TJ Dillashaw (5-1) and British submission specialist Vaughan Lee (12-7-1), as well as between Rapahel Assunção (16-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) and Issei Tamura (7-2), have both been agreed to for the UFC’s bantamweight division.
Meeting in the UFC’s new flyweight division will be Chris ‘Kamikaze’ Cariaso (13-3) and Josh Ferguson (8-4), with both fighters dropping to 125-lbs for the first time in the Octagon.
UFC on FUEL TV 4 is expected to take place on July 11, 2012 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. A middleweight bout between Mark Munoz and Chris Weidman should headline.
Dillashaw is 1-1 in the UFC, earning a unanimous decision win over Walel Watson at the first FUEL event, while losing his debut to John Dodson in the TUF 14 bantamweight final. Lee holds the same record at 1-1, winning his first fight in the Octagon over Norifumi Yamamoto last February at UFC 144. The Brit lost his debut to Chris Cariaso by split decision at UFC 138.
Assunção is 2-1 in his last three and enters the bout on a decision victory against Johnny Eduardo at UFC 134. Assunção has been forced to sit since then due to a nose injury suffered in that fight. His opponent, Tamura finished Chinese fighter Zhang Tiequan at UFC 144, winning his Octagon debut by second round knockout.
Cariaso carries a 3-1 Octagon record into his flyweight debut, coming off a decision victory against Takeya Mizugaki in Japan at UFC 144. While Ferguson holds a 1-3 record over his last four fights, which includes a loss in his only Octagon appearance to Roland Delorme at The Ultimate Fighter 14 Final.