Winner of Alves vs. Fitch next in line for title bout
The winner of Saturday’s UFC 117 co-main event between Jon Fitch (22-3 MMA, 12-1 UFC) and Thiago Alves (16-6 MMA,…
The winner of Saturday’s UFC 117 co-main event between Jon Fitch (22-3 MMA, 12-1 UFC) and Thiago Alves (16-6 MMA, 9-3 MMA) will, in fact, get a shot at the title.
UFC president Dana White confirmed the expected plans during today’s pre-UFC 117 press conference at the Hilton San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf hotel in California.
The winner will be in line after Josh Koscheck, who meets current champ and “The Ultimate Fighter 12” rival coach Georges St-Pierre at a tentatively planned Dec 11 UFC 124 event.
UFC 117 takes place at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., and the night’s main card airs on pay-per-view.
The Fitch vs. Alves fight technically is a rematch of their 2006 meeting at UFC Fight Night 5, which Fitch won via second-round TKO. Since then, Alves is 7-1, and the lone came to champ St-Pierre at UFC 100, his most recent bout. Fitch is 9-1 since that fight, and his lone loss also came to St-Pierre, at UFC 87.
