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With Thiago Silva Out, Rampage Jackson Gets Matt Hamill at UFC 130

Filed under: UFC, NewsIn a change of plans brought about when Thiago Silva was removed from the show, UFC 130 now has a new light heavyweight bout for its main card.

Former light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson will fight Matt Hamill on…

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Rampage JacksonIn a change of plans brought about when Thiago Silva was removed from the show, UFC 130 now has a new light heavyweight bout for its main card.

Former light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson will fight Matt Hamill on the UFC’s Memorial Day weekend show, which will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 28 in Las Vegas.

The news of the signing was reported Friday by Heavy.com. Hamill’s head coach, Duff Holmes, confirmed the news to MMA Fighting and said Hamill had signed the bout agreement earlier in the day.

Matt Hamill: Friendship Out the Door vs. Tito Ortiz at UFC 121

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse ExclusiveOvershadowed by a heavyweight title fight, and the promotional debut of one of the most successful non-UFC fighters in history, teacher and student square off at UFC 121.

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Overshadowed by a heavyweight title fight, and the promotional debut of one of the most successful non-UFC fighters in history, teacher and student square off at UFC 121.

Matt Hamill was was one of Tito Ortiz‘s prized pupils on Season 3 of “The Ultimate Fighter.” On Saturday in Anaheim, Calif., they meet nearly five years after filming the show, and their careers couldn’t be going in much more opposite directions. Yet most eyes are on Brock Lesnar-Cain Velasquez and Jake Shields-Martin Kampmann.

Ortiz is far removed from his days as one of the most dominant champions in UFC history. He hasn’t won a fight in four years. Hamill, on the other hand, has won four straight. But Hamill isn’t looking at the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately side of his former coach, now adversary.

“Tito has fought a lot of good fighters and he has had amazingly close fights,” Hamill told MMA Fighting. “But I’m not thinking about his record or what his own mindset coming into this fight is. I’m just focusing on fine-tuning my own skills and my own mindset.”