UFC 105 Card Coming Together

Contrary to our last update it looks like the Nogueira/Cane fight will be taking place at UFC 106, not 105. This coming from Sherdog.com.

Has anyone ever realized that this sport is damn hard to keep up with?

Fighters Only is reporting that Mir/Kongo will be the headliner of UFC 105:

To be honest this is far from a solid main event. Mir is coming off a fight where he was demolished by Brock Lesnar while Kongo was drummed on for three rounds by Cain Velasquez. It’s generally best practice to avoid main eventing two guys coming off of brutal losses, but the UFC is handcuffed by the lack of potential main events right now and they have to get something in place so they can start promotion.

We’ll have updates as they develop.

The UK Sun is reporting that the debuting Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (brother of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira) will be offered the main event spot of UFC 105 against Dan Henderson, presumably at 205 pounds. The two fighters met back in the PRIDE promotion in 2005 where “Lil’ Nog” put on arguably his greatest performance in submitting Henderson in the first round.

Henderson is coming off of a devistating KO win over Michael Bisping which should make him a natural heel to the English crowd at the event.

Lightweights Terry Etim and Shannon Gugerty appear to be set to meet each other when the UFC returns to England at UFC 105.

Etim (13-2, 2 KO 10 Sub), a veteran of the UFC’s European cards, has won four straight fights since dropping back to back contests against Gleison Tibau and Rich Clementi. His last two fights have ended in spectacular fashion as he defeated Brian Cobb with a head kick/punch TKO at UFC 95 and then submitted Justin Buchholz with a beautiful brabo choke at UFC 99.