{"id":5812,"date":"2010-04-12T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2010-04-12T18:44:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:44:29","slug":"ufc-confirms-chuck-liddell-will-fight-rich-franklin-not-tito-ortiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/04\/12\/ufc-confirms-chuck-liddell-will-fight-rich-franklin-not-tito-ortiz\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Confirms Chuck Liddell Will Fight Rich Franklin, Not Tito Ortiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC officially announced Monday that Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin will headline the UFC 115 event in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors that Liddell would be fighting Rich Franklin, as opposed to his opposing &#8220;The Ultimate Fighter&#8221; coach Tito Ortiz, emerged last month, but UFC President Dana White initially shot them down, claiming Franklin was to fight Randy Couture.  Recently, however, White had been less blunt in his denial of the Liddell-Franklin match, and it now appears certain that something happens on this season&#8217;s &#8220;TUF&#8221; that results in Ortiz&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Set for June 12, the event is booked for General Motors Place and will be the promotion&#8217;s debut in the city.  Other matches are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Mirko Kro Cop vs. Pat Barry<br \/>\nMartin Kampmann vs. Paulo Thiago<br \/>\nCarlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald<br \/>\nTyson Griffin vs. Evan Dunham<br \/>\nMac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman<br \/>\nBen Rothwell vs. Gilbert Yvel<br \/>\nJames Wilks vs. Peter Sobotta<br \/>\nRicardo Funch vs. Claude Patrick<br \/>\nMike Pyle vs. Jesse Lennox<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC Confirms Chuck Liddell Will Fight Rich Franklin, Not Tito Ortiz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC officially announced Monday that Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin will headline the UFC 115 event in Vancouver. 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