UFC 75: Champion vs. Champion,” its most star-studded fight card ever, including the network’s first-ever UFC title fight,a unification bout between UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and PRIDE’s 205-pound Champion Dan “Hollywood” Henderson, on Saturday, September 8 at 9:00 PM ET/PT (same day tape) from The O2 Arena in London, England. UFC 75 also features a major heavyweight battle with international superstar Mirko “Cro Cop” when he takes on France’s Cheick Kongo. As a special feature, England’s own and “The Ultimate Fighter 3” Light Heavyweight Champion Michael “The Count” Bisping takes on fellow “The Ultimate Fighter 3” cast member Matt “The Hammer” Hamill.

UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is coming off a thrilling victory over Chuck Liddell. Knocking out “The Iceman” less than two minutes into the first round of their fight at UFC 71 in May to capture the light heavyweight crown, Jackson stopped a streak of four consecutive title defenses by Liddell. The 29-year-old has been a rising star in mixed martial arts since his 2001 debut with the PRIDE Fighting organization (recently acquired by UFC ownership) he defeated many of the world’s best fighters, including a previous victory over Liddell in 2003. Jackson will put his new UFC title on the line against Henderson, the pound-for-pound superstar who holds two titles in PRIDE.

UFC 75 Champion vs. Champion

It looks like UFC 75 will be the spot where Rampage Jackson has his first title defense. Dan Henderson will be the challenger, but seeing as Henderson holds the Pride 205lb belt, he's hardly the underdog.

Dan Henderson is one of the toughest, most resillient and hardest hitting fighter in either the middleweight or light heavyweight divisions. Dan is a celebrated wrestler who was on the 1992 and 1996 US Olympic Greco-Rroman wrestling teams. That's no small feat and as Randy Couture and Matt Lindland have shown, Olympic calibre wrestlers who can adapt to MMA usually do pretty well in this sport.

Dan has had a couple of matches already in the UFC. He faced both Allan Goes and Carlos Newton in the same night at UFC 17. This was back in the days when the UFC still did tournament format events. Dan Henderson won the middleweight final against Carlos Newton in that event, May 15, 1998.that makes Dan Henderson active in high level MMA for almost 10 years. In fact if I list the fighters that Dan Henderson has defeated in one MMA organization or another, you might just be surprised. Dan Henderson holds victories over:

Carlos Newton
Gilbert Yvel
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (yes, that's Big Nog)
Renato Sobral
Renzo Gracie
Akira Shoji
Murilo Rua
Murilo Bustamante
Vitor Belfort
and of course most recently a victory over Wanderlei Silva to claim the Pride middleweight (205lb) title.

Both of these fights are great matchups where either fighter could come out on top.

In other undercard action, light heavyweights Michael Bisping and Matt Hamill will each be putting their undefeated records on the line in a match-up that most expected to see on “The Ultimate Fighter 3” before Hamill was forced to withdraw from the competition due to injury. Fighting out of Widnes, England, Bisping, winner of The Ultimate
Fighter 3 in the light heavyweight division, comes into the bout off wins over Eric Schafer and Elvis Sinosic at UFC 66 and UFC 70 respectively.

UFC 75 will be the promotion’s third event of the year in Europe, following UFC 70 in Manchester, England and UFC 72 in Belfast, Ireland.

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