A featherweight bout of Pablo Garza (10-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) vs. Yves Jabouin (15-6 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and a welterweight fight of Claude Patrick (13-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) vs. Daniel Roberts (12-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) are now official for April's UFC 129 event. MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported the bouts, which UFC executives recently made official.
UFC 129 takes place April 30 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto and features a welterweight title fight between champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Jake Shields.
The night's main card airs on pay-per-view, though both Garza vs. Jabouin and Patrick vs. Roberts both are slated for the preliminary card.
Garza, who was part of the original 28 fighters on "The Ultimate Fighter 11," recently scored a highlight-reel win over Freidson Paixao in the first featherweight bout in UFC history. Garza launched a flying knee that knocked out cold his Brazilian opponent. That win followed a disappointing Zuffa debut in which he took a short-notice WEC 51 fight with Chinese import Tiequan Zhang and suffered a first-round submission loss, the first defeat of his career.
Jabouin, who works out of Montreal's Tristar Gym under the tutelage of St-Pierre trainer and strategist Firas Zahabi, fights in his new home country. The Port-au-Price, Haiti native ended a three-fight stint with the now-defunct WEC on a winning note when he took out Brandon Visher via decision at WEC 52. The triumph reversed a two-fight slide at the hands of Rafael Assuncao and fellow Canuck Mark Hominick under the WEC banner.
Patrick, meanwhile, fights for the first time since an October 2010 win over James Wilks at UFC 120. "The Prince" also was victorious in his octagon debut when he defeated Ricardo Funch via submission at this past June's UFC 115 event. Patrick sports a 12-fight win streak overall and has not tasted defeat since a June 2002 loss to former UFC fighter Drew McFedries.
Roberts enters the matchup on a three-fight win streak. A teammate of Shields, Roberts suffered a knockout loss to John Howard in his March 2010 UFC debut but since has rebounded with victories over Greg Soto, Mike Guymon (which earned a "Submission of the Night" award) and Forrest Petz, all under the UFC banner.
The latest UFC 129 card now includes:
MAIN CARD
- Champ Georges St-Pierre vs. Jake Shields (for welterweight title)
- Champ Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick (for featherweight title)*
- Randy Couture vs. Lyoto Machida*
- Phil Davis vs. Matt Hamill
- Mark Bocek vs. Ben Henderson
- Brian Foster vs. Sean Pierson
- Pablo Garza vs. Yves Jabouin
- Claude Patrick vs. Daniel Roberts
- Ivan Menjivar vs. Charlie Valencia
- Jason MacDonald vs. Ryan Jensen
- John Makdessi vs. Kyle Watson
- Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald*
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