“The Battle at Bayou” will again be a must see event on UFC Fight Night 25. New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La will be the venue of the hard core action between Jake Shields and Jacob Steven Ellenberger. It is the first non-title fight in UFC history. The event will be a special promotional event by Bud Light this year.
In lined for the preliminaries are the Lightweight bout of Cody McKenzie vs. Vagner Rocha, this fight will be followed by the Lightweight bout between Evan Dunham vs. Shamar Bailey, a Welterweight bout of Matt Riddle vs. Lance Benoist, a Bantamweight bout of Ken Stone vs. Donny Walker, a Welterweight bout of Clay Harvison vs. Seth Baczynski, a Welterweight bout of TJ Waldburger vs. Mike Stumpf, a Featherweight bout of Mike Lullo vs. Robert Peralta, and a Welterweight bout of Justin Edwards vs. Jorge Lopez.
Up for the main events will be a Middleweight bout of American fighter Court McGee vs. ,Korean, Dongi Yang. “The Battle of Bayou” main cards include a Featherweight bout of Jonathan Brookins vs. Erik Koch, who are both American fighters, this will be followed by a Middleweight bout between American fighter Alan Belcher vs. ,Canadian, Jason MacDonald. And the awaited main event will be a bout between Shields and Ellenberger.
Jake Shields is a 32 year old fighter born at Mountain Ranch, California. He stands at 6ft(1.83m) and has an reach of 72-inches(183cm). He best specializes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling and kickboxing winning 26 of his 32 bouts. Jacob Ellenberg in the other-hand is a much younger fighter at 26. He was born at Omaha, Nebraska. Ellenberg stands at 5ft 11in (1.80m) with an arm reach of 73.0 in (185cm). This fighter is best fighting using wrestling and kickboxing winning 25 of his 30 bouts.
All is set for Sept 18, at New Orleans Morial Convention Center for the “Battle of Bayou” with main event, Shields vs Ellenberger. A battle of both American fighters will determine who's the stronger American. Will Shields prove that age will not matter, yet experience will prevail or will the younger Ellenberger rain victorious? Preliminaries will be shown at facebook.com and some of the events on Spike TV. Indeed another blood rush and sucker punch event will be exploding in the horizon for UFC Fight Night 25 will rock New Orleans.
