Pair of Welterweight Bouts Added to 84
Posted by Chad Edward on March 18th, 2008The UFC has announced a pair of welterweight bouts for UFC 84 24 May in Vegas.
“War Machine” Jon Koppenhaver (5-1) and Yoshiyuki Yoshida (9-2) will match-up well as Jason Tan (5-2) and Dong Hyun Kim (9-1).
Koppenhaver appeared on the sixth season of TUF and is coming off a bloody, brutal slog with cast-mate Jared Rollins (6-4) on the season’s finale.
Yoshida debuts in the UFC with an eight-fight streak stretching back to a 2005 Shooto majority technical decision loss to “K-Taro” Keita Nakamura (14-3-2). In 2007 he stopped both Akira Kikuchi (16-4) and Katsuya Inoue (16-5-2) in the first round of Greatest Common Multiple events in Japan.
Tan lost his UFC debut last year by KO to “Irish Hand Grenade” Marcus Davis (14-3), but has since recorded a unanimous decision over “Xandinho” Alexandre Izidro (6-7) in a Cage Gladiators.
DEEP vet Kim hasn’t lost since his MMA debut in 2004 versus “RYO” Young Choi (9-4) by unanimous decision, though he only muddled a draw out of Hidehiko Hasegawa (14-9-4) in his most recent start.
