As I wrote earlier today, Martin Kampmann was rumoured to fight Jake Shields when he would sign with the UFC.
Jake has now signed the contract and the fight is official for October 23. for UFC 121 in Shields home state California.
There will be a lot of hype around this fight and fighting on the same card as Brock Lesnar could mean that around 1 million PPV buys and potential exposure to several million people.
Here is what I wrote about the fight earlier:
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Kampmann recently won a dominate decision victory over Paulo Thiago. Jake shields' last victory came against former pride champion Dan Henderson. Kampmann's only two loses in the UFC has come against to of the absolute best and he is 8-2 in the UFC. Jake shields is on a 14-fight win streak since the end of 2004.
There is no doubt about that the level of hype around both of these fighters is really high. Plus the UFC is probably going to hype this fight even more now that they have stolen Jake shield from strikeforce.
Martin would really win a lot from this fight, but the stakes are also pretty high. When you fight against a guy that's on a such a long win streak you risk a lot, and this is far from an easy fight. But after what Kampmann showed against Paulo Thiago He is more than ready! "
I still believe that Kampmann will win this. Many people say that Kampmann weakness is wrestling, which is just what Shields is good at. But looking at the Paulo Thiago fight where Kampmann manhandled a really great BJJ black belt. Although not the same as a really good wrestler, you get the feeling that Kampmann's ground game has evolved greatly.
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