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He brought himself back to the top with a dominant knockout victory over Chuck Liddell, but is he ready for the man who most recently put Thiago Silva and Rashad Evans to sleep?<\/p>\n<p>The card also features Cain Velasquez, one of the most hyped heavyweight fighters in the world, fighting a debuting Ben Rothwell and a battle between Joe Stevenson and Spencer Fisher.<\/p>\n<p><B>MAIN CARD<\/b><br \/>\nUFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida vs. Mauricio &#8220;Shogun&#8221; Rua<br \/>\nCain Velasquez vs. Ben Rothwell<br \/>\nGleison Tibau vs. Josh Neer<br \/>\nJoe Stevenson vs. Spencer Fisher<br \/>\nAnthony Johnson vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida<\/p>\n<p><B>SPIKE TV PRELIMINARY CARD<\/b><br \/>\nRyan Bader vs. Eric Schafer<br \/>\nPatrick Barry vs. Antoni Hardonk<\/p>\n<p><B>UNAIRED PRELIMINARY CARD<\/B><br \/>\nYushin Okami vs. Chael Sonnen<br \/>\nJorge Rivera vs. Rob Kimmons<br \/>\nKyle Kingsbury vs. Razak Al-Hassan<br \/>\nStefan Struve vs. Chase Gormley<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ufc99_11_velasquez_vs_kongo_013-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"ufc99_11_velasquez_vs_kongo_013\" title=\"ufc99_11_velasquez_vs_kongo_013\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1408\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Final Card For UFC 104: &quot;Machida vs. Shogun&quot; 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