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Villasenor Replaces Rua at EliteXC

Posted On: April 18, 2008 at 1:57pm

Jackson’s Submission Fighting’s Joey Villasenor (25-6) will replace “Ninja” Murilo Rua (15-8-1) on CBS EliteXC Saturday Night Fights 31 May, EliteXC announced.

Villasenor has won twice since losing to Rua by TKO in June 2007.  He won a split decision over Riki Fukuda (9-3) and knocked out Ryan Jensen (11-4) last month.

Baroni returns after losing an Icon middleweight title bout to Kala Kalohe Hose (6-1) in March.

No explanation for the change has been given.

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