February 11, 2010
UFC 114: Amir
Sadollah vs Dong Hyun Kim on tap for May 29
By Jesse
Holland
Electrifying welterweight strikers Amir Sadollah (3-1) and
Dong Hyun Kim (12-0-1) have agreed to throw leather on the
upcoming UFC 114 fight card, tentatively scheduled for the
MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 29
according to
MMAWeekly.
After more than a year on the
sidelines, Sadollah finally got back into the cage at UFC
101 last September in his welterweight debut.
Unfortunately his return was short lived after Johnny
Hendricks put him down in the first round.
The loss didn't seem to bother
him much, as he came firing back and put an ass whooping
on veteran Phil Baroni at UFC 106 just two months later.
The Ultimate Fighter 7 champ
quickly made it two in a row, again dominating his
opponent at UFC Fight Night 20 when he gave Brad Blackburn
three rounds of hell just last month.
Now Sadollah gets to prove his
merit in a very crowded division against the
tough-as-nails Korean.
"Stun Gun" scored a
unanimous decision win over Brazilian jiu-jitsu stylist TJ
Grant at UFC 100: "Lesnar vs. Mir 2" back in July 2009.
The convincing victory over the Canadian was important
because Kim had previously been involved in two close
matches that could have gone either way.
He was originally penciled in to
butt heads with Chris Lytle "Down Under" at UFC 110, but
was forced to withdraw from the event due to injury.
UFC 114 will feature the long
overdue light heavyweight grudge match between bitter
rivals and former TUF 10 coaches "Suga'" Rashad Evans and
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
Also on tap for the main card is
the return of Diego Sanchez to the welterweight division
opposite John Hathaway.
