UFC to air four preliminary card bouts from UFC 140 on Ion Television

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

The UFC will televise four preliminary card bouts from next weekend's UFC 140 event in Toronto, as they've announced plans to bring the fights to Ion Television.

It will be the first time the UFC has aired fights on Ion since this February, when they aired prelim fights for UFC 127. This two-hour prelims broadcast will feature Igor Pokrajac vs. Krzysztof Soszynski, Jared Hamman vs. Constantinos Philippou, John Makdessi vs. Dennis Hallman, and Yves Jabouin vs. Walel Watson.

UFC 140 is headlined by a Light Heavyweight Championship bout between Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida. In addition to the Ion Prelims, three fights will stream live on Facebook. The full event layout is below:

Main Televised Card

* Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida
* Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
* Tito Ortiz vs. Antonio Rog�rio Nogueira
* Claude Patrick vs. Brian Ebersole
* Mark Hominick vs. Chan Sung Jung

Ion TV Prelims

* Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Igor Pokrajac
* Jared Hamman vs. Constantinos Philippou
* John Makdessi vs. Dennis Hallman
* Yves Jabouin vs. Walel Watson

Facebook Prelims

* Mark Bocek vs. Nik Lentz
* Rich Attonito vs. Jake Hecht
* Mitch Clarke vs. John Cholish

Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_11476.shtml

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