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Event name: UFC 84: Ill Will
Date: May 24, 2008
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena
Broadcast: PPV (10pm ET)
UFC 84 is headlined by a lightweight title clash between UFC lightweight champion, B.J. Penn and former UFC lightweight champion, Sean Sherk. Intriguing light heavyweight matches between Tito Ortiz and Lyoto Machida
as well as Keith Jardine vs. Wanderlei Silva will serve as co-main events.
The African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou will face fellow judoka Kazuhiro Nakamura at May’s UFC 84.
Sokoudjou burst onto the MMA scene last year with two devastating knockout wins over highly touted fighters,
Antonio Rogerio Noguiera and Ricardo Arona in the now defunct Pride FC. However in his recent UFC debut at
UFC 79: Nemesis, he was defeated by Lyoto Machida by 2nd round arm-triangle choke.
Kazuhiro Nakamura has fought a who’s who of Pride veterans, which is not a surprise considering that prior
to UFC 76 it was the only organization he had fought for. He had mixed results in Pride going 11-6 in his
time there. Just like Sokoudjou, Nakamura’s last defeat was at the hands of Machida at the UFC 76: Knockout.
Thiago Silva (12-0) is now set to face UFC newcomer, Antonio Mendes (14-2) at UFC 84.
The undefeated Brazilian, who last fought at UFC 78: Validation, in which he scored a first round TKO over
Houston Alexander, will now take on a fellow Brazilian in the form of Antonio Mendes. Mendes went 9-0 in
2007 and fights out of Europe Top Team.
Main Card
BJ Penn vs. Sean Sherk
UFC Lightweight Championship
Wanderlei Silva vs. Keith Jardine
Tito Ortiz vs. Lyoto Machida
Wilson Gouveia vs. Goran Reljic
Thiago Silva vs. Antonio Mendes
Preliminary Bouts
Rameau Sokodjou vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura
John Koppenhaver vs.Yoshiyuki Yoshida
Jason Tan vs. Dong Hyun Kim
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