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29/07/10 - UFC confirms 24 top name fighters for Boston Expo
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has announced a list of fighters that will participate in the UFC Fan Expo at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston on August 27 and 28, the same weekend that Randy Couture will fight James Toney and BJ Penn will attempt to recapture the lightweight belt from Frankie Edgar.
The following fighters will participate in autograph sessions and a variety of other fan activities:
UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva
UFC Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell
UFC light heavyweight champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
WEC lightweight champion Ben Henderson
WEC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz
Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin
Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz
Carlos Condit
Clay Guida
Cole Miller
Efrain Escudero
Gabriel Gonzaga
Jon Jones
Josh Grispi
Kurt Pellegrino
Matt Hamill
Martin Kampmann
Pat Barry
Roy Nelson
Thiago Alves
Anthony Johnson
Ricardo Almeida
Renzo Gracie
Former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber.
As if that wasn’t enough, additional fighters added to the UFC Fan Expo are to be announced in the coming weeks, making for the biggest MMA event ever to hit the east coast of America.
A similar Expo is planned for the UK in October. Fighters Only was told by a senior UFC source recently that there should be around fifteen to twenty top names at the London Expo.
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