Report: BJ Penn vs. Diego Sanchez To Take Place At UFC 105 In The UK

by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 21, 2009 7:00 PM EDT in News Comment 9 comments

UFC lightweight world champion B.J. Penn

The news comes courtesy of InsideFights and is rather surprising considering that it's been difficult to get the UFC champions to defend their titles on the foreign cards. The last fighter to do so was in fact, BJ Penn at UFC 80 against Joe Stevenson. Those cards typically do much lower numbers PPV wise than cards that take place in North America. However, with this card being possibly aired on Spike TV, the UFC may be able to compensate penn more so than if this were a PPV. We reported some rumored match ups earlier in regards to UFC 105 and this will be a dope FREE card on Spike TV if they all come to fruition. This is how the card is shaping up thus far:

BJ Penn vs. Diego Sanchez(UFC Lightweight Title)
Michael Bisping vs. Denis Kang
Dan Hardy vs. Dong Hyun Kim
James Wilks vs. Matt Brown
Demarques Johnson vs. Peter Sobotta
Paul Kelly vs. Dennis Siver
Andre Winner vs. Rolando Delgado

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free!

make it so. :-0

by bdw on Aug 21, 2009 7:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Always free for me — they show UFC ppv’s on cable here :)

Bloody hell.

by 3PA on Aug 21, 2009 8:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Shut up!

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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 22, 2009 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I kind of don’t like the free cards because they are usually of a lower standard haha.

Bloody hell.

by 3PA on Aug 22, 2009 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yea

To a degree…some of them have turned out to be decent though.

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by Kelvin Hunt on Aug 22, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Now that’s a fighting champion. Great to see Andre Winner and Paul Kelly on the card.

by SlickRick00 on Aug 21, 2009 7:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Im a big fan of both.

I think Diego has a better chance of winning than Kenny did, but I think BJ is going to take it.

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by _Felix_ on Aug 21, 2009 7:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Awesome

This fight card is solid with a title fight and 2 very interesting match ups. Bisping vs. Kang should be a stand up battle. Hope Bispings chin has heeled or he’ll piss the home fans off. The Hardy vs. Kim fight will be very fun to watch also. Can’t wait!

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by MMAvalor on Aug 21, 2009 11:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs