The UFC will be returning to England, on February 27th for UFC Fight Night 83 at the O2 in London, and the first 3 bouts fort the event have been announced.
The main event will see the home coming of TUF season 2 winner, the number 8 UFC Middleweight contender Michael “The Count” Bisping (27-7) who’s coming off a split decision win over Thales Leites against former Dream and Strikeforce champion Gegard Mousasi (37-6-2), who’ll be looking to rebound from a TKO loss to Uriah Hall. The loss ended a 2 fight win streak.
At Lightweight coming off a unanimous decision win over Reza, which ended a 2 fight skid, Madadi “Stormin” Norman Parke (21-4-1) faces Rustam “Tiger” Khabilov (17-3) who’ll be looking to rebound from consecutive losses to Benson Henderson (sub) and Adriano Martins (sd).
At Featherweight Finland’s Makwan Amirkhani (12-2) squares off with England’s Mike Wilkinson (9-1). Amirkhani is on a 3 fight win streak and is 2-0 in the UFC with a 8 second TKO of Andy Ogle and a 1st round rear naked choke of Amsio Fullen. Wilkinson is 2-1 in the UFC and last fought in October of 2013 scoring a 1st round knock out of Niklas Backstrom.
