Okami Returns to Face Lister in December
By: Selina "Dead" Wong Posted On: September 30, 2008 at 9:16am
Fighters.com’s sixth-ranked middleweight “Thunder” Yushin Okami (21-4-1) will face Dean Lister (11-5) 27 December in Las Vegas at UFC 92, according to MMA Weekly.
Okami is coming off two consectutive wins. His last fight was in March, when he KO’d the late Evan Tanner (32-8-0) in the second round.
Okami was expected to rematch with Middleweight Champion “Spider” Anderson Silva (22-4) for the title but injured his hand during training.
Lister also won his last two fights, most recently submitting “Gumby” Jeremy Horn (80-18-5) with a first-round guillotine in June.
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