The Ultimate Fighting Championship announced a key bantamweight bout to the fight card in their second 2011 show in Toronto at UFC 140. According to the promotion's website, "Canada's own Yves Jabouin will be taking on Walel Watson in a bantamweight battle on December 10th at UFC 140 in Toronto."
UFC President Dana White added, "Jabouin is looking to stay undefeated since moving into the weight division and Watson is coming off a spectacular KO win." At the time of this post, verbal agreements were in place between both fighters.
UFC 140 takes place on December 10th at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The UFC 140 fight card is as follows:
Main card (pay-per-view):
Jon Jones vs. Lyoto Machida
Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Tito Ortiz
Brian Ebersole vs. Rory MacDonald
Mark Hominick vs. Chan Sung Jung
Preliminary card
Igor Pokrajac vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
Dennis Hallman vs. John Makdessi
Rich Attonito vs. Claude Patrick
Mark Bocek vs. Nik Lentz
John Cholish vs. Mitch Clarke