Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will hold a special media conference call today (April 22, 2013) in advance of its UFC 159: "Jones vs Sonnen" pay-per-view (PPV), which will take place this weekend (April 27) in Newark, New Jersey.
The conference call will begin at promptly at 2 p.m. ET. Scheduled to attend will be the headlining fighters of the evening: Jon Jones, Chael Sonnen, Michael Bisping and Alan Belcher, as well as UFC President Dana White.
Jones is the current UFC light heavyweight champion. "Bones" is striving to become the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world and he'll be competing for the first time since defeating Vitor Belfort last September, injuring his arm in the process. He coached against Sonnen on season 17 of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) and he'll finally be able to dish out some damage against him this Saturday night.
Sonnen was in the right place at the right time, volunteering to compete for the light heavyweight title when Dan Henderson pulled out of his UFC 151 main event against Jones, although he was turned down and the event was cancelled. The mouthy ex-realtor continued to talk and when Jones was ready to return to action, UFC decided they had unfinished business that needed to be settled.
He'll finally get a chance to back up all his talk this weekend.
Belcher and Bisping have enjoyed a budding rivalry ever since their fight was announced. Both men came up short in recent opportunities to become number one contender in the middleweight division, with Belcher falling to Yushin Okami and Bisping getting stopped by Vitor Belfort. They've been yapping at each other for months now and the score will finally be settled inside the Octagon.
Brian Hemminger here. The conference call will begin at 2 p.m. ET.
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