Spike has announced that the “UFC 101 Countdown” show will premiere Tuesday, August 4th. Lightweight champion BJ Penn will take on Kenny Florian in the night’s main event. Also being featured is middleweight champ Anderson Silva’s second fight in the light heavyweight division against Forrest Griffin.
The UFC 101 Countdown show will air on Tuesday night beginning at 11PM ET/PT and will replay on August 6th and 8th at 2AM ET/PT and 6 PM ET/PT, respectively.
UFC 101 will take place at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, and will be available on pay-per-view.
Here’s how the UFC 101 card breaks down:
Preliminary Bouts:
Dan Cramer vs. Matthew Riddle George Roop vs. George Sotiropoulos Thiago Tavares vs. Melvin Guillard Jesse Lennox vs. Danillo Villefort Tamdan McCrory vs. John Howard Alessio Sakara vs. Thales Leites
Main Bouts:
Josh Neer vs. Kurt Pellgrino Ricardo Almeida vs. Kendall Grove Johny Hendricks vs. Amir Sadollah Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin (Light Heavyweight bout) Kenny Florian vs. BJ Penn (UFC Lightweight Champion)
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