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Saturday, October 31, 2009

UFC 105 Matchup Breakdown

The fourth fight on the cards prelims will be a welterweight fight between Nick Osipczak Vs. Matt Riddle, kind of mirror images of each other. As is the case with almost half of the fighters on this card, these two are former Ultimate Fighter contestants.

Nick Osipczak is 24 years old stand 6'2" and fights with a record of 4-0. Nick trains with Andre Winner at team Roughhouse, Nick also appeared on the Ultimate Fighter Team U.K. Vs. Team U.S.A. losing the fight to go to the welterweight finals. Nick attended Loghborough University, while there he tool Kung-Fu classes in his spare time, he graduated with a degree in mathematics, accounting, and financial management. He then became a professional gambler (naturally with that degree;) he never considered mma until he watched UFC Ultimate Knockouts and began training full time at Jess Liaudin's London Pancrase. Nick practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Sanshou, which is the Chinese Kung-Fu's version of Vale Tudo. With only three professional fights this young gun has a lot of room to grow, and round out his skill set to become a force in the UFC welterweight division.



Matthew "Chipper" Riddle is 23 years old stands 6'1" and fights with a record of 3-0. Matt is a former High School wrestling national champion. After high school he worked as a roofer and would train on his Brazilian Jiu-jitsu in the evenings. Because he did not have money to pay a gym he trained in his apartment reading B.J. Penn's book MMA The Book of Knowledge. Matt is now a purple belt in Bjj. Matt received a shot at the Ultimate Fighter season 7 getting into the house with one of the sickest knockouts in mma history over Dan Simmler.(a must see fight!) After making his way on the show Rampage Jackson nicknamed him Chipper because he was always smiling even while getting beat on in practice. Chipper made an impression on the UFC with his willingness to learn and natural talent for such a young aged man. Randy Couture invited Chipper to train full time at Xtreme Couture seeing the potential in him.

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