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18th Aug 2015

UFC 194 is on its way to ‘card of the year’ status with latest middleweight fight announcement

Three fights sorted

Darragh Murphy

It’s as if Joe Silva and Sean Shelby are actively trying to make it up to fans who were let down by Jose Aldo’s withdrawal from UFC 189.

The UFC matchmakers are putting together a stacked card for UFC 194 when we will finally see the two best fighters at 145 lbs go head-to-head with the undisputed featherweight title on the line.

We were pinching ourselves when a middleweight championship fight between Chris Weidman and Luke Rockhold was added as co-main event to UFC 194.

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And the promotion are truly outdoing themselves with the latest addition to the December 12 event as top contenders Yoel Romero and Jacare Souza have been matched up in a title eliminator at 185 lbs.

The pair have been scheduled to fight each other twice in 2015, at UFC 184 and at UFC on FOX 15, but neither bout came to fruition.

Jacare is currently riding an eight-fight win streak with his latest victory coming by way of first round armbar against Chris Camozzi.

Olympic wrestler Romero is looking to keep his undefeated UFC record going when he comes up against Souza with a shot at the winner of Weidman and Rockhold on the line.

So, I guess that makes UFC 194 unmissable then?