UFC 115 will be the next UFC event to feature the Spike TV one hour special “UFC Prelims” show and will feature a couple of lightweight tilts from the Vancouver event.

Tyson Griffin (14-2) will face Evan Dunham (10-0), while Mac Danzig (19-7-1) will step into the octagon against Matt Wiman (11-5) during the one hour special.

UFC 115 will take place on June 12 at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and will mark the promotions first show in that city. The “UFC Prelims” show will air on Spike TV at 9 p.m. EST (6 p.m. PST).

No official announcement has been made by Spike TV but official word is expected next week.

The match between Griffin and Dunham had been scheduled for the PPV card but was swapped out for a heavyweight match featuring Ben Rothwell (30-7) vs. Gilbert Yvel (36-14-1) instead. This might be an attempt by the UFC to feature more energetic and entertaining fights just before the main ppv to draw in more buyers. The reasoning is sound as the number of PPV buys from the recent ‘Aldo vs. Faber’ event certainly rose after fans witnessed the Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung fight.

The UFC and Spike TV have contracted 10 “UFC Prelims” specials for 2010. Six shows have aired since the first show at UFC 103, drawing from 1.2 million viewers (UFC 111) to 1.7 million viewers (UFC 109).

The latest UFC 115 card now includes:

Main Card

- Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin
- Patrick Barry vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
- Martin Kampmann vs. Paulo Thiago
- Ben Rothwell vs. Gilbert Yvel
- Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald

Preliminary Card (Spike TV)

- Evan Dunham vs. Tyson Griffin
- Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman

Preliminary Card (un-aired)

- David Loiseau vs. Mario Miranda
- Peter Sobotta vs. James Wilks
- Ricardo Funch vs. Claude Patrick
- Jesse Lennox vs. Mike Pyle

After missing the chance to fight at UFC 113 in Montreal this weekend, David Loiseau (19-9) will get his moment to fight on Canadian soil at UFC 115 against Mario Miranda (9-1).

UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin will take place on June 12 at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The bout between Loiseau and Miranda will take place on the preliminary card.

Loiseau had been a late replacement for an injured Nick Catone at UFC 113, and was to fight in front of his hometown of Montreal, but failed to receive his license in time and was replaced by another Canadian, Jason MacDonald in the bout against John Salter.

The delay in licensing was due to an open investigation into the sale of the XMMA, a Quebec based mma promotion Loiseau once owned part of, to a group of individuals who are being investigated by the authorities.

Loiseau has eight bouts under the UFC banner going 4-4 over the past seven years. He earned a victory over Chester Post at a MFL 2 Battleground event last February in his last match. In his last UFC appearance, at UFC 97, Loiseau lost a unanimous decision to Ed Herman at the April 2009 event.

Miranda made his UFC debut in his last fight against Gerald Harris, losing the first fight of his career by TKO at UFN 21. The Brazilian almost earned a spot on “The Ultimate Fighter 11″ but instead earned a contract with the UFC.

UFC 115 now appears as follows:

Main Card

- Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin
- Patrick Barry vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
- Martin Kampmann vs. Paulo Thiago
- Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald
- Evan Dunham vs. Tyson Griffin

Preliminary Card

- Ben Rothwell vs. Gilbert Yvel
- Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman
- David Loiseau vs. Mario Miranda
- Peter Sobotta vs. James Wilks
- Ricardo Funch vs. Claude Patrick
- Jesse Lennox vs. Mike Pyle

After missing the chance to fight at UFC 113 in Montreal this weekend, David Loiseau (19-9) will get his moment to fight on Canadian soil at UFC 115 against Mario Miranda (9-1).

UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin will take place on June 12 at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The bout between Loiseau and Miranda will take place on the preliminary card.

Loiseau had been a late replacement for an injured Nick Catone at UFC 113, and was to fight in front of his hometown of Montreal, but failed to receive his license in time and was replaced by another Canadian, Jason MacDonald in the bout against John Salter.

The delay in licensing was due to an open investigation into the sale of the XMMA, a Quebec based mma promotion Loiseau once owned part of, to a group of individuals who are being investigated by the authorities.

Loiseau has eight bouts under the UFC banner going 4-4 over the past seven years. He earned a victory over Chester Post at a MFL 2 Battleground event last February in his last match. In his last UFC appearance, at UFC 97, Loiseau lost a unanimous decision to Ed Herman at the April 2009 event.

Miranda made his UFC debut in his last fight against Gerald Harris, losing the first fight of his career by TKO at UFN 21. The Brazilian almost earned a spot on “The Ultimate Fighter 11″ but instead earned a contract with the UFC.

UFC 115 now appears as follows:

Main Card

- Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin
- Patrick Barry vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
- Martin Kampmann vs. Paulo Thiago
- Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald
- Evan Dunham vs. Tyson Griffin

Preliminary Card

- Ben Rothwell vs. Gilbert Yvel
- Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman
- David Loiseau vs. Mario Miranda
- Peter Sobotta vs. James Wilks
- Ricardo Funch vs. Claude Patrick
- Jesse Lennox vs. Mike Pyle

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It took just 30 minutes for UFC 115 to sell out according to UFC president Dana White, who posted the news on his Twitter page on Tuesday.

Vancouver sold out in 30 mins!!!! Thank you vancouver we worked hard on getting it there. Thank you mayor robertson

UFC 115 will take place on June 12th at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Tickets for the event never even made it to the general public or to UFC.com newsletter subscribers, as all tickets were purchased by members of the UFC’s official fan club, the UFC Fight Club. Members pay an annual fee and are given early access to ticket sales.

If UFC 115 truly did sell out in 30 minutes, it would make the event the fastest selling event in UFC history. The previous record was held by another event held in Canada, UFC 83 which was held in Montreal as Canada’s first-ever UFC event. It sold out in less than a minute once tickets became available to the public.

The full card for UFC 115 appears as follows:

Main Card

- Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin
- Patrick Barry vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
- Martin Kampmann vs. Paulo Thiago
- Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald
- Evan Dunham vs. Tyson Griffin

Preliminary Card

- Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman
- Ben Rothwell vs. Gilbert Yvel
- Peter Sobotta vs. James Wilks
- Ricardo Funch vs. Claude Patrick
- Jesse Lennox vs. Mike Pyle

After all of the rumors and denials by the UFC and it’s president Dana White, a bout between Chuck Liddell (21-7) and Rich Franklin (26-5) will go down in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at UFC 115. Liddell was supposed to meet fellow “TUF” 11 coach Tito Ortiz but will now instead meet “Ace” Franklin in the main event of UFC 115.

Main Card

- Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin
- Patrick Barry vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
- Martin Kampmann vs. Paulo Thiago
- Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald
- Evan Dunham vs. Tyson Griffin
- Thiago Alves vs. Jon Fitch*

Preliminary Card

- Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman
- Ben Rothwell vs. Gilbert Yvel
- Peter Sobotta vs. James Wilks
- Ricardo Funch vs. Claude Patrick
- Jesse Lennox vs. Mike Pyle

After 10 years of study, Evan Dunham is now a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt.

Wellington "Megaton" Dias, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based fourth-degree black belt under Royler and Rolker Gracie, surprised the UFC lightweight with the belt late last month at an affiliate school in Eugene, Ore., where Dunham built his mixed-martial-arts career.

The lightweight up-and-comer said the belt is nice but that it's not the end of the road in his evolution as a competitor.

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Noted striking coach Shawn Tompkins, who recently left the Xtreme Couture gym for the TapouT training center, talks about some of the fighters he’s trained, such as Evan Dunham, Sam Stout, and Vitor Belfort that when they win, he wins.

HT: Fight! Magazine

There are a lot of fighters out there that would tell you straight up that there’s no way they would fight their training partners under any circumstances, and there’s nothing more to discuss. Evan Dunham has never been that guy.

With news of an impending match-up between himself and Tyson Griffin on the horizon, a closer look would reveal that there’s much more than initially meets the eye in this 155 pound showdown. Dunham and Griffin have been going at it on the battle ridden mats of Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas for quite some time running.

“I’ve been training at Xtreme Couture for a little over a year now,” said Dunham in a recent conversation with FiveOuncesofPain.com. “I came there about a year and a half ago for about a week or so, and then in December of 2008 I did a five week camp at Xtreme Couture for a fight. Ever since then I’ve made the trip down here before all of my fights and in between camps too, just to stay sharp. So I’ve been here at Xtreme Couture very consistently for over a year.”

When asked whether he would have problem facing off with one of his teammates at Xtreme Couture, there was no hesitation in Evan’s response.

“It wouldn’t bother me,” quickly answered Dunham. “I would take the fight because this is our job. You fight whoever they tell you to. Gray [Maynard] is a great training partner, and so is Tyson [Griffin]. It would kind of suck because those are the guys that I would love to have get me ready for all of my fights, so I would have to find a different outlet for training partners. If that road were to ever come up, I would talk to them about it, and I’m sure that we wouldn’t have a problem with it.”

It doesn’t appear that either Dunham or Tyson Griffin had a problem with it as the two will likely face off at UFC 115 which is expected to take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 12 from the GM Place.

It had to happen sooner or later, and it now looks like Tyson Griffin and Evan Dunham could be viewed as trendsetters in the UFC from here forward as the fellow Xtreme Couture training partners are expected to face off with one another at UFC 115.

Both fighters have agreed to the match-up and the bout is expected to be finalized shortly according to MMAJunkie.com.

UFC 115 is expected to take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 12 from the GM Place.

The winner of this match-up will undoubtedly inch themselves that much closer to an eventual title shot, as Griffin is coming off of back to back wins over Rafael dos Anjos and Hermes Franca, while the undefeated Dunham has won three straight during his time spent with the UFC.