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MMA Junkie reports the salaries from UFC on Fuel TV 3.  The Korean Zombie, Donald Cerrone and TUF alum Amir Sadollah received the highest pay from Tuesday night. Via MMA Junkie: Chan Sung Jung: $34,000 (includes $17,000 win bonus) def. Dustin Poirier: $14,000 Amir Sadollah: $48,000 (includes $24,000 win bonus) def. Jorge Lopez: $6,000 Donald Cerrone: $60,000 (includes $30,000 win bonus) def. Jeremy Stephens: $24,000 Yves Jabouin: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus) def. Jeff Hougland: $8,000 Igor Pokrajac: $34,000 (includes $17,000 win bonus) def. Fabio Maldonado: $11,000 Tom Lawlor: $24,000 (includes $12,000 win bonus) def. Jason MacDonald: $19,000 Brad Tavares: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus) def. Dongi Yang: $12,000 Cody McKenzie: $20,000 (includes $10,000 win bonus) def. Marcus LeVesseur: $6,000 T.J. Grant: $30,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus) def. Carlo Prater: $10,000 Rafael dos Anjos: $32,000 (includes $16,000 win bonus) def. Kamal Shalorus: $11,000 Johnny Eduardo: $12,000 (includes $6,000 win bonus) def. Jeff Curran: $8,000 Francisco Rivera: $12,000 (includes $6,000 win bonus) def. Alex Soto: $6,000 Payout Perspective: Korean Zombie only made $34,000 but cashed in with 2 bonuses with a reported total of $114,000 for the night.  Cerrone avenged his loss to Nate Diaz and that loss doesn’t look too bad now considering Diaz’s victory last week.  Also, Amir Sadollah received a slight bump in pay as he’s getting $24K + $24K win whereas his past couple fights he was at $20K/$20K.

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Amir Sadollah's career has certainly stalled out. Since winning The Ultimate Fighter, Amir has struggled with steps up in competition and, in cases such as this past Saturday night's UFC on Fuel TV 3 card, struggle at times against even middling opposition. It's been a disappointment for many UFC fans in many ways. After all, Amir won his season of TUF despite never having fought professionally, only having a 4-0 amateur fighting record when he started his time in the house. Beating Gerald Harris, Matt Brown and C.B. Dollaway (twice) to win the competition was a huge moment that seemed to cast Sadollah in the role of a mixed martial arts prodigy. After beating unheralded Jorge Lopez by controversial, and quite boring, split decision on Saturday, many fans feel they have seen enough of the 31-year-old to write him off. Chad Dundas of ESPN still thinks fans should note the extreme circumstances of Amir's career: It would be a little like playing a few touch football games, winning a televised punt, pass and kick contest and then, in your late 20s, getting a starting job in the NFL. Could anyone succeed under those circumstances? Could anyone be reasonably expected to compete? And while they tried to compete, would a bunch of people sit around posting messages on Twitter about what a crappy job they were doing tackling Adrian Peterson? Because that's essentially what happens to Sadollah. SBN coverage of UFC on FUEL TV 3 Amir does deserve considerable credit for managing an unspectacular, but certainly credible, UFC run that began with no professional experience. But he has been getting top of the line training over the past four years and was put into a prominent spot on Saturday's card (even if Dana suddenly acted as though he had no clue of Amir's position on the card). To answer Dundas' question: yes, people would sit around criticizing any player on a pro team who was put into an important position and looked incapable of handling it. Especially after four years in the big leagues. Fair or not, there are expectations that come with positions in professional sports. For me, what is most disappointing is that the Amir who ran through a pretty good TUF cast is struggling all this time later against a guy like Jorge Lopez. There simply were expectations that came along with what Amir had been doing that fans expected him to run through a guy like Lopez four years after the reality show run. And at 31, it's not as though we can continue pretending that Amir is a young man with infinite time to refine his game. This may simply be as good as he gets, and that is disappointing.

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The Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation has released the salary information for all of the fighters who competed on the UFC on Fuel TV 3: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier fight card, which took place at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA. Donald Cerrone and Amir Sadollah were revealed to have been sent home with the biggest paychecks from that night, earning $60,000 and $48,000, respectively. Cerrone got back in the win column after suffering a tough-to-swallow unanimous decision loss to Nate Diaz late last year by beating down Jeremy Stephens for three rounds to earn his own unanimous decision win. Sadollah faced Wanderlei Silva protege Jorge Lopez in the night’s co-main event and struggled through to earn a split decision win. In the night’s main event, Chan Sung Jung took Dustin Poirier with a D’Arce choke in the fourth round of a wild fight. The win likely earned Jung a shot at the championship. Take a look at all of the fighters’ base salaries below (props to MMAJunkie): Chan Sung Jung ($17K + $17K win bonus = $34K) defeated Dustin Poirier ($14K) Amir Sadollah ($24K + $24K win bonus = $48K) defeated Jorge Lopez ($6K) Donald Cerrone ($30K + $30K win bonus = $60K) defeated Jeremy Stephens ($24K) Yves Jabouin ($10K + $10K win bonus = $20K) defeated Jeff Hougland ($8K) Igor Pokrajac ($17K + $17K win bonus = $34K) defeated Fabio Maldonado ($11K) Tom Lawlor (12K + $12K win bonus = $24K) defeated Jason MacDonald ($19K) Brad Tavares ($10K + $10K win bonus = $20K) defeated Dongi Yang ($12K) Cody McKenzie ($10K + $10K win bonus = $20K) defeated Marcus LeVesseur ($6K) T.J. Grant ($15K + $15K win bonus = $30K) defeated Carlo Prater ($10K) Rafael dos Anjos ($16K $16K win bonus = $32K) defeated Kamal Shalorus ($11K) Johnny Eduardo ($6K + $6K win bonus = $12K) defeated Jeff Curran ($8K) Francisco Rivera ($6K + $6K win bonus = $12K) defeated Alex Soto ($6K)   MMAFrenzy.com

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Not every fight on a UFC card is going to contend for fight of the night. "The Ultimate Fighter 7" winner Amir Sadollah and Jorge Lopez met in a bout curiously placed in the co-main event position at Tuesday night's UFC on Fuel TV 3 card in Fairfax, Va. More Coverage: UFC on FUEL 3 Results | UFC News After 15 minutes without much action of note, in which neither man came close to finishing the fight, Sadollah came out on the right end of a split decision, taking two of three 29-28 scores. With the win, perhaps the welterweight Sadollah, who's been saddled with injuries since winning TUF, is finally developing some momentum. He's now 6-3 and has won three of his past four. Lopez, a Wand Fight Club team member in Las Vegas, is 11-3, having dropped both of his UFC fights.

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FAIRFAX, Va. - It wasn't exactly earned in impressive fashion, but Amir Sadollah's homecoming was a success. Fighting just a few hours from his hometown, Sadollah earned a razor-thin split decision over Jorge Lopez at Tuesday's UFC on FUEL TV 3 event at Patriot Center in Fairfax, Va. The bout was the fifth of six FUEL TV-broadcast main card contests and followed the evening's Facebook streamed preliminary bouts.

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Amir Sadollah defeats Jorge Lopez by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) It wasn't pretty, but it was effective. Amir Sadollah took advantage of a tired Jorge Lopez to squeak out a split decision victory in the co-main event of UFC on Fuel 3. Lopez looked good with his striking early, but faded late and started to rely on a clinch and takedown game. Sadollah was taken down a few times, but apparently did enough on the feet to negate the cage work. It wasn't a very pretty fight. Lopez looked sharp early, landing a bit more than Amir. Lopez pinned Sadollah against the cage and the fighters exchanged knees. Lopez continued to land his jab. Lopez caught a kick and looked for a takedown. Sadollah looked to lock on a guillotine and got slammed for his troubles. Lopez pinned Amir against the cage, but Sadollah got up and looked for his own takedown against the cage. The fighters grinded away against the cage to close out the first. Lopez looked for a takedown against the cage early in the second, but much like the end of the first there was nothing there and they just clinched against the cage for over a minute. Once they finally separated, Sadollah landed a nice combination. Lopez again went for a takedown against the cage, and actually got a leg, but Amir countered with a guillotine. Lopez ended up on Amir's back in the scramble but was unable to do anything with it. Back in the middle Sadollah landed more strikes over the next minute, but Lopez got a takedown off a Sadollah kick with 30 seconds to go. Sadollah got back to his feet at the end of the round. Lopez came out quickly in the third with some strikes and again looked for a takedown in the clinch against the fence. After a full minute, Lopez got it to the floor for exactly one second before Sadollah popped back up. Lopez looked a bit tired, and Sadollah landed a nice push kick to the face and an elbow. Lopez once again went for the clinch takedown, and finally gets it this time. Lopez didn't do much on top, and the bout was stood up with a minute to go. Sadollah went on the attack against a tired Lopez, but it went back against the cage once again. Sadollah dumped Lopez down briefly, but Lopez popped up. Sadollah closed it out with a big knee. SBN coverage of UFC on FUEL TV 3

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The co-main event of the UFC on FUEL TV 3: "Korean Zombie vs. Poirier" fight card going down in Fairfax, Virginia, tonight (Tues., May 15, 2012) showcased a pair of welterweights looking to rebound from recent losses as Amir Sadollah took on Jorge Lopez. Sadollah, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) winner the promotion has been trying to turn into a star for years now, came in on a near year-long layoff after a hard fought loss to Duane Ludwig. Lopez, on the other hand, was defeated by Justin Edwards in his Octagon debut in September of last year. Something had to give. Or you would think. But this was one of the worst fights of the year. By the time it was over, the fans in attendance at the Patriot Center were just glad it was finished. Sadollah picking up the split decision victory was all but an afterthought. Lopez, identified as a Wanderlei Silva protege, was popping a jab early. He was also the far more aggressive of the two fighters, pushing ahead and showing little to no regard for Sadollah's offense. It wasn't long before they were in the clinch, where Amir had the edge. A submission attempt from Lopez was laughed off and the uneventful first round came to an end. The second round began with a clinch and a restless crowd expressing its collective displeasure with a sound eerily similar to one a cow makes. Submission attempts were bandied about but that was only a brief glimpse of excitement in an otherwise dull affair. Come round three, the two continued to engage in one of the most boring fights ever contested in a UFC cage. There was little action and by the time the horn sounded, the boos drown out the announcers telling us the match was finally, mercifully, over. Sadollah wins. Moving along. Remember, too, that MMAmania.com has LIVE ongoing coverage of the UFC on FUEL TV 3 main card, as well as complete results from the undercard, right here.

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The co-main event of tonight's UFC on Fuel TV 3 show is a welterweight showdown between Amir Sadollah and Jorge Lopez. The Fuel TV broadcast begins at 8:00 p.m. ET and features a #1-contender bout in the featherweight division that pits Chan Sung Jung vs. Dustin Poirier. It's somewhat ironic that Amir Sadollah (5-3) defeated -- and finished -- a more impressive assortment of middleweight competition to win TUF 7 than he has in the Octagon as a welterweight, and did so without a single pro-fight on his record. Starting with the elimination bout to gain entrance to the TUF house, Sadollah defeated Steve Byrnes (6-1) by armbar, Gerald Harris (21-4) by TKO, Matt Brown by triangle choke and Division 1 All-American wrestler C.B. Dollaway (11-4) by armbar ... twice. In retrospect, trampling such a respectable array of game middleweights with a potent blend of striking and submissions, with all but the last Dollaway catch coming before his pro-career even began, is monumentally admirable. When Sadollah announced that he'd be dropping to welterweight after clenching the TUF crown, he seemed destined for a top-contender slot. From a strict win-loss standpoint, Sadollah's post-TUF is considered disappointing by many. I would politely assert that the defeats on his 5-3 clip in the Octagon were all unfavorably styled opponents: current #1-contender Johny Hendricks (1st-round TKO), imposing grappler Dong Hyun Kim (unanimous decision) and Muay Thai champion and experienced MMA vet Duane Ludwig (unanimous decision). More UFC on Fuel TV 3 Dissections Cerrone vs. Stephens | Lawlor vs. MacDonald | Maldonado vs. Pokrajac Jabouin vs. Hougland | Facebook Undercard Jorge "Lil' Monster" Lopez (11-2) has been trumpeted as the top student of MMA legend Wanderlei Silva and his own Wand Fight Team. Lopez has spent a few years under Silva's tutelage and also had the honor of training with the infamous Chute Boxe team, yet doesn't quite exemplify the style that crowd is known for. Lopez is a "2x Utah state champ and 3x regional champ in wrestling" according to his UFC.com profile, though it's not specified if that was in college or high school, and has 6 wins by decision and 5 by TKO. Rather than a crippling Thai machine, Lopez is a physically imposing grinder with considerable strength and a formidable clinch game. He made his Octagon debut against Justin Edwards having a single flaw on his record after 12 outings, which was a split-decision loss to former Strikeforce fighter Nick Rossborough in Lopez's 2nd pro-fight. Edwards defeated Lopez by unanimous decision and snapped his 10-fight win streak. Because Sadollah commands a higher status than Edwards, he comes in as a big favorite over Lopez. However, again turning to the "styles make fights" cliche, Edwards is a deceivingly beefy welterweight and a straight-up bruiser in the clinch, and Sadollah will not be able to replicate those traits. Continued in the full entry. SBN coverage of UFC on FUEL TV 3 Though he's billed as a Master of Sambo, Sadollah isn't a power-clincher and mostly relies on his stellar Thai arsenal in tie-ups. His strengths are maximizing his length with a distance-based kickboxing onslaught replete with front snap kicks, teeps and unreeling punching combinations while closing range to work knees and elbows in the clinch. Lopez is indeed a power-clincher and I foresee him causing trouble for Sadollah at contact-range. He has a wide body, excellent balance, a strong base and a low center of gravity. This translates to a lot of control whenever he can get his hands on his opponent; an attribute similar to "Stun Gun" Kim's trademark approach, who was able to stifle Sadollah's striking with clinch control and takedowns. That will undoubtedly be the strategy for Lopez, spinning this match up into a game of distance. Sadollah's footwork and cage motion should be employed to keep him out of reach while raining strikes from the fringe, while Lopez will be tasked with closing the distance to initiate a clinch without eating too many shots on the way in. Sadollah showed some striking power on TUF yet he's without an official TKO in the UFC since. Knockout power is never a bad thing, but Sadollah has chosen to judicious in strike selection and prioritize balance and composure when loosening strikes rather than raw power. The advantage is that he's rarely caught off-balance or out of position and can therefore defend strikes, clinch blitzes and takedowns more effectively. Sadollah is the narrow favorite in the -165 range, which seems accurate. He's the more proven and dangerous fighter, but Lopez absolutely has the type of blender-clinching to negate his Muay Thai. The deciding factor is Sadollah's under-rated BJJ acumen, which gives him the edge in the Free Movement and Grappling Phases. Unless Lopez goes all Randy Couture, I like Sadollah in a close one. My Prediction: Amir Sadollah by decision. Poll Amir Sadollah vs. Jorge Lopez Sadollah Lopez   0 votes | Results

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It's been nine months since Amir Sadollah last set foot in the Octagon, but he's ready to return at UFC on Fuel TV 3 on Tuesday night in Virginia. Retweet this Share on Facebook • Email • StumbleUpon • Reddit • Digg • Technorati • Instapaper • Tumblr • Google Reader • LinkedIn

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UFC on FUEL 3 post weigh-in interviews with Dustin Poirier, Chan Sung Jung, Donald Cerrone, and Amir Sadollah.

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Few fighters have taken a path comparable to Ultimate Fighter 7 winner Amir Sadollah. The affable welterweight entered the show without an official fight under his belt, coming out with the show’s title and a contract to compete inside the Octagon despite the season’s finale marking his professional debut. While Sadollah has had to learn on the job, racking up a 5-3 record over the past four years, he’s perfectly content with how his career has turned out and is excited about the continued progression he’s seen inside the gym. “I wouldn’t change anything,” said the 31-year old Sadollah in an interview with the UFC’s website. “I’m glad that I got to jump in the big leagues, and I’m proud of all my wins and losses in the UFC. It’s the big stage and you gotta be confident to be there, and I think that was best for me. My personality’s the same way. I want the challenge, and I want the high risk/reward. Of course it’s much harder to fight in the UFC than on the local circuit, but at the same time, if you can do it, you’ve got something to be proud of.” Sadollah’s next test will come on Tuesday night when he faces Jorge Lopez at UFC on Fuel 3. Lopez is 11-2 and has had his hand raised in ten of his last eleven outings. Their fight has been in the making for six months after an originally scheduled meeting between the two was cancelled for health-related reasons. During that span Sadollah has kept busy in the gym and continued to blossom as a result. “It was unfortunate that I was injured, but the upside of all that is that training for the period that I was able to and then going into this camp, I noticed all these, not shortcuts, but things I was doing efficiently and doing well in my camp, and things that historically I had stressed about, I wasn’t stressing about anymore,” Sadollah explained. “It showed me that maybe I’m starting to get the hang of this.” “I’m starting to feel like these lessons are accumulating and I’m starting to learn the tricks. I’m far from being a master, but I think I’m definitely past being green,” he concluded. A Closer Look at Sadollah’s Last Fight Fans can catch Sadollah’s attempt to put practice into action when the UFC on Fuel 3 broadcast fires up at 8:00 PM EST. In addition to Sadollah-Lopez the card features Jeremy Stephens vs. Donald Cerrone and Dustin Poirier vs. Chan Sung Jung. PHOTO CREDIT – UFC Tweet

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Some fighters are superstars in the gym, but when the bright lights are on and it’s time to perform for real, they’re a lot less than that. Some fighters are the opposite, content to take their lumps in the gym as long as they deliver stellar efforts when the bell rings.UFC welterweight Amir Sadollah falls into the latter category, and he has no shame in admitting it.“I get beat up in the gym all the time,” said the Ultimate Fighter season seven winner, who returns to the state he grew up in, Virginia, to battle friendly rival Jorge Lopez this Tuesday on FUEL TV. “I have my share of bad days, but I think that’s always been a strength of mine (to come back from that and perform on fight night). I’m not going to say I don’t try in practice, but I’ll be trying on certain things and kind of letting things happen. And at the end of the day, I think what I’m doing is really training and really practicing and experimenting in training, where it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you get tapped out of beat up, as long as you’re applying what you’ve learned on fight night.”So if Lopez believes that his sparring sessions with Sadollah a while back have prepared him for what he will see in Fairfax in two days, not so fast, says the 31-year old vet.“Even if you trained with someone recently, training is different from a fight, and I think you’d be foolish to really think you can know what’s gonna happen,” said Sadollah. “I don’t know about him, but I know I fight very different from how I train. It’s good to have an idea, but at the same time, you just have to go ahead and continue with your gameplan and not worry about what they’re gonna do.”That’s just another part of the educational process of Sadollah, one of the rare athletes who has fought his entire professional career under the UFC banner. To succeed in the Octagon and stay here for nearly four years is a significant feat. To do it without any prior pro experience takes things to a whole other level. Sure, there have been ups and downs for Sadollah, but the ups have kept the downs from overwhelming him. Needless to say, he has no regrets.“I always wish I can do what’s best for my career and make it optimal, but I was kinda thinking about that (fighting his whole career in the UFC), and I wouldn’t change anything,” he said. “I’m glad that I got to jump in the big leagues, and I’m proud of all my wins and losses in the UFC. It’s the big stage and you gotta be confident to be there, and I think that was best for me. My personality’s the same way. I want the challenge, and I want the high risk / reward. Of course it’s much harder to fight in the UFC than on the local circuit, but at the same time, if you can do it, you’ve got something to be proud of.”Winner of bouts over CB Dollaway, Phil Baroni, Brad Blackburn, Peter Sobotta, and DaMarques Johnson, Sadollah has proven himself in the Octagon, and even his decision loss to veteran Duane “Bang” Ludwig in August of last year proved to be educational, as he got to test his standup skills against one of the best technical strikers in the game. He didn’t come out on top, but he got plenty of things to work on moving forward.“For me it was important,” said Sadollah. “I’ve always seen so many fights in the UFC that are these great promised striking battles, and then they turn into a grappling match. And not that I’m so vain that I wouldn’t try to win the fight, because I definitely went for takedowns in the fight and Duane did a great job on the feet in defending that stuff. But for me, he’s a great striker and definitely the best I’ve faced so far, so it was important to know that I wasn’t gonna ditch out on the striking. I was there to fight and win, but I also wanted to fight the best and learn from that experience, and I feel like I did that.”Injuries have kept him sidelined since the Ludwig bout, with his original UFC 143 meeting with Lopez becoming a casualty as a result. But when he was able to train, Sadollah made sure he was in the gym, not just to get in shape and keep sharp, but to learn.“It was unfortunate that I was injured, but the upside of all that is that training for the period that I was able to and then going into this camp, I noticed all these, not shortcuts, but things I was doing efficiently and doing well in my camp, and things that historically I had stressed about, I wasn’t stressing about anymore,” he said. “It showed me that maybe I’m starting to get the hang of this.”You rarely get this kind of honesty anywhere in the sports world, but particularly in the fight game. Most fighters don’t want to show the process to get to this point, to admit that maybe they don’t know it all. To those athletes, that just gives an opponent ammo for an upcoming bout. Sadollah has never been a typical pro fighter though, and in all honesty, he’s the same person today that he was when he first appeared on the world’s radar on The Ultimate Fighter in 2008. That’s admirable.“It would be wrong to say that nothing has affected me, but I’m just trying to let all this experience help me as a person and not detract from me, and that’s always been a definite goal of mine,” he said. “Obviously I want to be in the UFC and perform to the best of my abilities and fight the biggest fights and be the best, but you don’t want to let your own hype take away from who you are and I’ve been fortunate enough to have supportive family and friends to keep me grounded.”Being humble is the first step to getting better. If you know it all, you’re not willing to learn. Amir Sadollah has checked his ego at the door of every gym he’s been in over the last few years, and now he’s beginning to reap the benefits. “I’m starting to feel like these lessons are accumulating and I’m starting to learn the tricks,” he said. “I’m far from being a master, but I think I’m definitely past being green.”

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A trio of fights have been added to the May 15 UFC on Fuel 3 card in the form of Jorge Lopez-Amir Sadollah, Cody McKenzie-Aaron Riley, and Brad Tavares-Dongi Yang. All three bouts were announced by the UFC. Lopez (11-2) is a student of Wanderlei Silva’s who lost his UFC debut to Justin Edwards in 2011. Lopez and Sadollah (5-3) were scheduled to first meet at UFC 143 but both were injured and the fight was cancelled. McKenzie (12-2) has gone 1-2 in his three UFC fights since appearing on the Ultimate Fighter 12, while Riley (30-13-1) is 3-3 in his last six UFC fights and 3-5 all-time inside the Octagon. Tavares (7-1) suffered the first loss of his career at UFC 132 to Aaron Simpson. His opponent, Yang (10-2), sports a 1-2 career record with the UFC. UFC on Fuel 3 takes place from the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia. The main card airs on FUEL TV, while the prelims will stream on Facebook. The main event is scheduled to see Dustin Poirier and Chan Sung Jung battle to move one step closer to a shot at the featherweight title. PHOTO CREDIT – Amir Sadollah

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Ultimate Fighter 7 winner Amir Sadollah will return to the Octagon on May 15 against Wanderlei Silva student Jorge Lopez as part of the growing list of bouts scheduled for UFC on Fuel 3, a card headlined by featherweight action from Dustin Poirier-Chan Sung Jung. The UFC announced the fight in addition to two others featuring Aaron Riley vs. Cody McKenzie and Dongi Yang vs. Brad Tavares. Sadollah will be looking to bounce back from a decision loss to Duane Ludwig after stringing together a pair of victories in his prior bouts. The affable welterweight holds an overall record of 5-3 with all of his fights taking place under the UFC’s banner, as Sadollah is one of the rare competitors to have made his professional debut inside the organization’s infamous eight-sided cage. A Detailed Breakdown of Sadollah’s Stumble Against Ludwig The 11-2 Lopez is in a similar position to Sadollah’s after having come up short on the scorecards against Justin Edwards at UFN 25. Only 23, Lopez had won ten straight entering the bout. PHOTO CREDIT – UFC Tweet

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The injury bug has struck again as 'Ultimate Fighter' winner Amir Sadollah has been forced out of his bout at UFC 143 against Jorge Lopez.

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Amir Sadollah will try to bounce back from his UFC on Versus 5 loss to Duane Ludwig when he faces Wanderlei Silva protege Jorge Lopez at UFC 143 in February. The bout is expected to take place on the preliminary card. UFC.com has the news: Verbal agreements are in for a welterweight matchup between two exciting strikers as Wanderlei Silva protégé Jorge Lopez takes on Ultimate Fighter winner Amir Sadollah at UFC 143. Lopez was a standout in Tachi Palace Fights before earning a shot in the UFC at UFC Fight Night 25. He lost a unanimous decision to Justin Edwards, which snapped a 10-fight win streak. Sadollah had been on a two-fight win streak before the loss to Ludwig, and the former TUF winner will need a win to stay afloat in the competitive welterweight division. UFC 143 takes place on February 5th in Las Vegas, and features a main event with Georges St. Pierre defending his UFC welterweight title against challenger Nick Diaz. More SBN coverage of UFC 143

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Amir Sadollah, winner of Season 7 of "The Ultimate Fighter," looks to get back in the win column at UFC 143 against Jorge Lopez.

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The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 7 winner, Amir Sadollah, will look to rebound from a recent loss when he tangles with Jorge Lopez in a welterweight fight planned for UFC 143 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 4, 2012. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) today announced that verbal agreements are in place for the 170-pound contest to be featured on the SuperBowl weekend "St. Pierre vs. Diaz" fight card. Sadollah had a nice two-fight win streak rudely interrupted by mixed martial arts (MMA) veteran Duane Ludwig at UFC on Versus 5 on Aug. 14, 2011, dropping a lopsided unanimous decision. Prior to the defeat, Sadollah had won four of five fights inside the Octagon, including a brutal second round finish of DaMarques Johnson. If he intends to get back in the win column, he'll have to go through Wanderlei Silva's 23-year-old protege. Lopez, a Wand Fight Team member, struggled in his promotional debut, losing a unanimous decision to Justin Edwards at UFC Fight Night 15 back in Sept. 2011. "Lil Monster" has finished nearly half the opponents (five) who he has faced thus far in his young professional career via (technical) knockout and has never been stopped early. UFC 143 will feature welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre putting his title on the line against Stockton bad boy and former Strikeforce king Nick Diaz. In the co-main event, Carlos Condit will attempt to earn a date with the winner in a bid against Josh Koscheck. To check out the latest UFC 143 fight card and rumors click here. To sift through the most comprehensive collection of UFC 143 news and notes be sure to hit up our complete event archive right here.

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Former 'Ultimate Fighter' winner Amir Sadollah gets back in the cage Super Bowl weekend where he faces Wanderlei Silva student Jorge Lopez at UFC 143.

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Amir Sadollah is set to meet Wand Fight Team welterweight Jorge Lopez at UFC 143.The UFC has confirmed the bout for the February event. Sadollah (5-3)...

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Ups and downs are inherent to life, which means you're not immune if you're an MMA fighter and your name happens to be Amir Sadollah. Since May 2010, "The Ultimate Fighter 7" winner has an even 2-2 record. Mixed results aren't ideal in a cutthroat business. You never know what could happen following a loss. Sadollah is safe at the moment - but definitely shouldn't get too comfortable.

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