TEAM ALPHA MALE UPDATES: FABER VS BARAO FOR THE TITLE, MENDES VS MCKENZIE

UFC 148 TITLE FIGHTS SET

On the horn:

Johnny Waugh

EDITOR IN CHIEF

RENAN BARAO/ PHOTO

"It would be great,” Barao said to TATAME about fighting Faber. “Actually, I fight any guy UFC tells me to. I’m prepared and I can fight anyone.” 

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       Last night's episode, May 18, of "The Ultimate Fighter: Live" is the place that UFC president Dana White confirmed the future contender to fight for the interim bantamweight title is Renan Barao (28-1). Champion Dominick Cruz has torn his ACL and Barao has been moved from his bout on the UFC 148 card against Ivan Menjivar up to take on TUF coach and number one contender Urijah Faber (26-5) on the main card of UFC 148. Menjivar (24-8) currently has no new opponent, but Micheal McDonald of Modesto, CA was also a possible contender for the title, except an injury has kept him out of the running. Barao lost his first professional fight but has since won 28 fights in a row with one no contest. Barao thought fighting Faber would be good for his career.

"It would be great,” said an excited Barao when asked about facing Faber in an interview with TATAME. “Actually, I fight any guy UFC tells me to. I’m prepared and I can fight anyone.” 

       Also, Chad "Money" Mendes and Cody Mckenzie have agreed verbally to meeting at UFC 148 in Las Vegas as well. The July 7 event will be the first for Mckenzie (13-2) in the featherweight division while Mendes most recently lost to current featherweight champion Jose Aldo at UFC 142 and will be looking to get back to his winning ways (11-1).

MAIN CARD:

    (middleweight title) Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen
    Urijah Faber vs. Renan Barao
    Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz
    Rich Franklin vs. Cung Le
    Dong Hyun Kim vs. Demian Maia

  PRELIMS:

    Chad Mendes vs. Cody McKenzie
    Riki Fukuda vs. Constantinos Philippou

    Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Gleison Tibau
    Fabricio Camoes vs. Melvin Guillard
    John Alessio vs. Shane Roller

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