Today the UFC® confirmed the fighters that will be attending the first ever UFC®
Fan Expo™. The two day expo will be held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas July 10th and 11th. The fighters that will be at the expo for meet and greets will be UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto “The
Dragon” Machida, UFC Hall of Famers Royce Gracie and Randy “The
Natural” Couture, and former world champions Chuck “The
Iceman” Liddell, “Suga” Rashad Evans, Forrest Griffin, and
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. UFC contenders Kenny Florian, Steve
Cantwell, Shane Carwin, Marcus “The Irish Hand Grenade” Davis,
Tyson Griffin, Clay Guida, Dustin Hazelett, Keith “The Dean of
Mean” Jardine, Anthony “Rumble” Johnson, Martin “The
Hitman” Kampmann, Josh Koscheck, Joe Lauzon, Junie Browning, Nate
Marquardt, Gray Maynard, Karo Parisyan, Diego “Nightmare” Sanchez,
Sean Sherk and Mike Swick will also be meeting fans, along with The Ultimate
Fighter winners Nate Diaz and Efrain Escudero.
Fans of the PRIDE Fighting Championships will have the
chance to re-live the excitement of Japan’s classic organization as well,
with MMA icons Renzo Gracie and Gary Goodridge being joined by “The Texas
Crazy Horse”, Heath Herring, and Brazilian superstars Wanderlei
“The Axe Murderer” Silva and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua.
And if that’s not enough MMA star power, the premier
fighters of the WEC will be on hand to sign autographs, with current champions
Miguel Torres, Mike Brown, and Jamie Varner sharing the convention center floor
with Urijah Faber, Jens Pulver, Brian Bowles, Joseph Benavidez, Donald Cerrone,
Leonard Garcia, Ben Henderson, and Alex Karalexis.
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