{"id":267303,"date":"2018-01-04T17:36:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T01:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=267303"},"modified":"2018-01-04T17:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T01:56:23","slug":"texas-james-vick-fight-ufc-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/james-vick\/texas-james-vick-fight-ufc-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas’ James Vick Has his Fight for UFC Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Texicutioner” is coming home! After a big win at UFC 217 over Joe Duffy to extend his streak to three, James Vick wanted a top ten fight and made that very clear. He actually had been wanting one before that…but no one would accept the challenge and still hasn’t. As Vick mentioned<\/a> recently\u00a0on an episode of\u00a0<\/span>BJ Penn Radio:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI talked to [UFC matchmaker Shelby], it was probably last week,\u201d Vick said \u00a0\u201cThey\u2019re going to ask Kevin Lee to fight me, which they don\u2019t think is going to happen. Then he said they\u2019re going to ask [Michael] Chiesa to fight me. I think they really want to make that fight with Chiesa because it makes sense for the UFC and for us. They don\u2019t want to fight me,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been calling the dude out. I\u2019ve been talking shit to him on Twitter. He don\u2019t want to fight me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThen they\u2019re talking about [Francisco] Trinaldo or Paul Felder. I don\u2019t think Paul Felder\u2019s manager\u00a0is going to let him fight me,\u201d he said. \u201cI assume I\u2019m probably going to end up fighting Trinaldo, which isn\u2019t a step down for me. I\u2019ll fight him. Hopefully, Trinaldo will take the fight. He\u2019s actually ranked one above me. It\u2019s not a step down. Trinaldo beat Yancy Medeiros. People don\u2019t remember. Trinaldo beat him pretty easily. Why the hell aren\u2019t we getting the main event spot [in Austin]?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, it turns out that Vick was right after all! Vick finds himself ranked at #15 currently in the UFC’s official rankings and the UFC announced today that Vick’s next fight will take place at UFC Austin against the #14 ranked, Francisco Trinaldo on February 18.<\/p>\n

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Trinaldo will be coming into the fight fresh off a win over Jim Miller back in October. This was Trinaldo’s first win after losing to the future interim Lightweight title challenger, Kevin Lee. That loss snapped a seven-fight win streak for Trinaldo and a win was surely going to give him a big boost up in the ranks. But now he’s working his way back up and will have to go through Vick to get another streak going.<\/p>\n

James Vick is 12-1 with his only loss coming to fellow ranked 155er, Beneil Dariush. The Mineral Wells, Texas-born, Vick has shown massive improvements in each fight. Specifically, each of his last three which he has finished all of against Abel Trujillo, Marco Polo Reyes, and Joe Duffy.<\/p>\n

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The rest of UFC Austin is looking like this so far:<\/p>\n

Welterweight – 170 lbs: Donald Cerrone vs. Yancy Medeiros<\/p>\n

Lightweight – 155 lbs: Sage Northcutt vs. Thibault Gouti<\/p>\n

Heavyweight – 207-265 lbs: Derrick Lewis vs. Marcin Tybura<\/p>\n

Flyweight – 125 lbs: Ray Borg vs. Brandon Moreno<\/p>\n

Bantamweight – 135 lbs: Tonya Evinger vs. Marion Reneau<\/p>\n

Bantamweight – Lucie Pudilova vs. Sarah Moras<\/p>\n

Welterweight – Brian Camozzi vs. Geoffrey Neal<\/p>\n

Strawweight – 115 lbs: Jessica Aguilar vs Livia Renata Souza<\/p>\n

Flyweight – Joby Sanchez vs. Roberto Sanchez<\/p>\n

Lightweight – Diego Ferreira vs Jared Gordon<\/p>\n

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This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/span>BJPenn.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>on 1\/4\/2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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