{"id":180178,"date":"2015-12-21T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T17:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=180178"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:38:31","slug":"ufc-fight-night-81-full-card-nearly-finalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/ufc-fight-night-81-full-card-nearly-finalized\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night 81 full card nearly finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All but one fight is finalized for the UFC Fight Night 81 card featuring the bantamweight championship fight between <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/beef-dillashaw-and-cruz-bring-their-trash-talk-to-the-next-level2\/\">champion T.J. Dillashaw and former champion Dominick Cruz<\/a>. Other big bouts on the card feature former UFC lightweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/holy-sht-did-pettis-just-knock-out-his-coach-duke-rufus-watch\/\">Anthony Pettis<\/a> versus former Bellator lightweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/deddie-alvarez-im-like-a-fcking-unicorn-in-this-sport\/\">Eddie Alvarez<\/a> as well as an exciting heavyweight match between <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/browne-confirms-relationship-with-rousey-shes-my-woman-and-im-her-man\/\">Travis Browne<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/matt-mitrione-calls-out-travis-browne\/\">Matt Mitrione<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest UFC Fight Night 81 lineup via <a href=\"http:\/\/fiveouncesofpain.com\/2015\/12\/21\/lineup-set-for-ufn-81-in-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five Ounces of Pain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MAIN CARD (FOX Sports 1\/10 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n<p>UFC Bantamweight Championship<br \/>\nT.J. Dillashaw (c) vs. Dominick Cruz<\/p>\n<p>Lightweight: Anthony Pettis vs. Eddie Alvarez<\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight: Travis Browne vs. Matt Mitrione<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight: Maximo Blanco vs. TBA<\/p>\n<p>PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX Sports 1\/8 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n<p>Lightweight: Ross Pearson vs. Francisco Trinaldo<\/p>\n<p>Welterweight: Patrick Cote vs. Ben Saunders<\/p>\n<p>Lightweight: Mairbek Taisumov vs. Chris Wade<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight: Jimy Hettes vs. Charles Rosa<\/p>\n<p>PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass\/6 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n<p>Lightweight: Paul Felder vs. Daron Cruickshank<\/p>\n<p>Middleweight: Tim Boetsch vs. Ed Herman<\/p>\n<p>Light Heavyweight: Sean O\u2019Connell vs. Ilir Latifi<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Rob Font vs. Patrick Williams<\/p>\n<p>Light Heavyweight: Abdul-Kerim Edilov vs. Francimar Barroso<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What bouts are you most excited to see? Let us know in the comments section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All but one fight is finalized for the UFC Fight Night 81 card featuring the bantamweight championship fight between champion T.J. Dillashaw and former champion Dominick Cruz. Other big bouts on the card feature former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis versus former Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez as well as an exciting heavyweight match between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":180182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC Fight Night 81 full card nearly finalized | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/ufc-fight-night-81-full-card-nearly-finalized\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UFC Fight Night 81 full card nearly finalized | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All but one fight is finalized for the UFC Fight Night 81 card featuring the bantamweight championship fight between champion T.J. 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