UFC Fight Night 22 is now official after Spike TV made the announcement on Monday. The event will be headlined by middleweight fighters Demian Maia (12-2) and Alan Belcher (16-6). The co-main event has lightweights Mac Danzig (19-8-1) rematching Matt Wiman (12-5).

UFN 22 will be held at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas on Sept. 15 and will act as the lead-in for Season 12 of “The Ultimate Fighter” television series. Season 12 will feature welterweight coaches UFC champion Georges St-Pierre and top contender Josh Koscheck.

Maia is coming off a loss to middleweight champ Anderson Silva at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi last April and is 6-2 in the UFC, having won four “Submission of the Night” awards. While his opponent Belcher is 7-4 in the UFC and riding a two fight win streak, with victories over a returning Patrick Côté at UFC 113 and Wilson Gouveia at UFC 107.

The rematch between Danzig and Wiman comes after the controversial stoppage in their last fight at UFC 115 in May. Wiman was on top and had Danzig in a guillotine choke when referee Yves Lavigne stopped the bout thinking that Danzig was unconscious. Danzig immediately jumped up and protested the call but to no avail. The UFC immediately booked the rematch and both men will now meet for a second time at UFN 22 in September.

The full rumored card for UFN 22 is as follows:

Middleweight bout: Alan Belcher vs. Demian Maia
Middleweight bout: Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman
Lightweight bout: Jim Miller vs. Gleison Tibau*
Lightweight bout: Cole Miller vs. Ross Pearson*
Lightweight bout: Efrain Escudero vs. John Gunderson*
Welterweight bout: Nick Catone vs. Tomsz Drwal*
Light-heavyweight bout: Jared Hamman vs. Kyle Kingsbury*

*-Not official

A lightweight matchup between Efrain Escudero (13-1) and John Gunderson (23-7-1) has been added to the UFC Fight Night 22 card, according to sources close to the bout who spoke to MMAjunkie.com.

Escudero is coming off a unanimous decision win over Dan Lauzon last May at UFC 114, bouncing back from the first professional loss of his career. Evan Dunham used an armbar to submit Escudero at UFN 20 in January of this year, ending a 12 fight undefeated streak which included victories over Cole Miller at UFC 103 and Phillipe Nover at the TUF 8 Finale to win that seasons lightweight contract.

Gunderson also bounced back from a loss in his last bout, winning a unanimous decision over Canadian Mark Holst at the TUF 11 Finale. So far he’s just 1-1 under the UFC banner having lost to Rafaello Oliveira by unanimous decision at UFC 108.

The Spike TV broadcasted UFN 22 event, will take place on Sept. 15 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.

The current rumored fight card for UFN 22 is as follows:

Middleweight bout: Alan Belcher vs. Demian Maia*
Lightweight bout: Jim Miller vs. Gleison Tibau*
Lightweight bout: Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman*
Lightweight bout: Cole Miller vs. Ross Pearson*
Lightweight bout: Efrain Escudero vs. John Gunderson*
Middleweight bout: Nick Catone vs. Tomsz Drwal*
Light-heavyweight bout: Jared Hamman vs. Kyle Kingsbury*

* – Not officially announced

It appears Nick Catone will stay at middleweight for now.

Not long after the New Jersey native told MMAjunkie.com that he wants to drop to welterweight, sources close
to the promotion today said Catone will stay in the
185-pound division to fight Tomasz Drwal at UFC
Fight Night 22.

UFC Fight Night 22 is expected to take place Sept. 15 at the Frank Erwin
Center in Austin, Texas, and air live on Spike TV, though the promotion
has yet to officially announce the event.

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - Before Frankie Edgar, Kurt Pellegrino, Ricardo Almeida, Jim and Dan Miller, Nick Catone, and Mike Massenzio helped make New Jersey a hotbed for UFC-level mixed martial artists, there was Rich Attonito.

Nick Catone is regrouping at a new gym after
suffering three herniated discs in his back which forced him to withdraw
from a planned fight with John Salter at UFC 113.

The UFC middleweight told MMAjunkie.com that he has
joined the Renzo Gracie Fight Team out of UFC welterweight Ricardo
Almeida's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school in Hamilton, N.J., which hosts
around 25 fighters including UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar.

In the course of the move, the New Jersey native Catone decided he wants
to drop from the middleweight to the welterweight class.

This Saturday, Canadian middleweight fighter Jason “The Athlete” MacDonald (24-13) realizes that he’s in a make or break moment when he steps into the octagon against John Salter At UFC 113 in Montreal.

As a late replacement for an injured Nick Catone, MacDonald knows that this will most likely mean his last chance at making a successful return to the UFC.

“It’s a real make or break for me,” he said. “It’s go out there and really make the most of fighting for myself and make one last big charge at it, or come January 2011, I’m scheduled to return back to work. If I’m doing well and I’m still part of the UFC, which I plan on being, it makes the decision that much easier to not go back to work. But if I’m not where I want to be with my fight career at 35 years of age, then I’ll have to make a decision whether to continue to grind it out or go back to work.”

“The reality is that I’ve struggled,” he said. “I’m married with four children and I have a family to provide for. I’m not 22 years old and can make ten thousand dollars a fight and make that stretch out for six months. I have bills, I have obligations, I have a family, and I’m accountable to them. I’ve been the provider for my family while my wife went to college and I know the struggles that life really has. It hasn’t been an easy road and those are the things that motivate me every day when I get out of bed at six in the morning and get the kids off to school and then head to the gym. Those are the things that keep me going and I don’t want to be struggling to pay for my gas at a gas station and wonder if I’m gonna have enough money in my bank account to cover it. I’ve been there and it’s stressful, and it’s not much fun. So those are things that motivate me to work my ass off day in and day out and to get myself back in the UFC and do whatever it takes and fight whoever it takes to get there. And now that I’ve been given a second chance, I’m going to absolutely make the best of every moment.”

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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

A middleweight bout between John Salter and late replacement and returning Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Jason MacDonald is now official for next week's UFC 113 event.

MMAjunkie.com first reported the fight earlier this week, and UFC executives recently made it official.

MacDonald is a late replacement for David Loiseau, who was a replacement for Nick Catone (back injury). Loiseau was forced off the card earlier this week due to a delay in getting his license.

Former UFC middleweight contender David Loiseau has been called in as a short-notice replacement to fight John Salter on the non-televised portion of UFC 113.

Sources close to the event today told MMAjunkie.com that Salter's original opponent, Nick Catone, was forced to withdraw from the fight due to a back injury.

UFC 113 takes place May 8 at the Bell Centre in Montreal and is the promotion's third event on Canadian soil. A light-heavyweight title rematch between current champion Lyoto Machida and challenger Mauricio "Shogun" Rua headlines the show.