Sheilds Officially Signs With UFC in WW, Fight Announcement Soon

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It's official. According to Graciefighter.com, the UFC has signed the former Strikeforce Middleweight Champion, Jake Shields (25-4-1) to a contract. They also announced that the #3 ranked middleweight will drop back down to join the UFC welterweight shark tank:

Jake Shields will be debuting at the 170lbs weight division in the UFC. After careful consideration and consulting with UFC representatives it was determined Jake would be finally going back to his original fighting weight.

Jake's opponent is one of the UFC's top contenders and will be announced shortly.

While I would've loved to see him coach on TUF and get a title shot against Georges St. Pierre, his entry to the 170 lb division could still forge a ton of interesting match-ups against the UFC's top contenders. If I had to guess though, my money would be on him debuting against the #7 ranked, Martin Kampmann.

Win - Dan Henderson - Decision (Unanimous) - Strikeforce: Nashville - April 17, 2010

Win - Jason Miller - Decision (Unanimous) - Strikeforce: Fedor vs Rogers - November 7, 2009

Win - Robbie Lawler - Submission (Guillotine Choke) - Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields - June 6, 2009

Win - Paul Daley - Submission (Armbar) - EliteXC: Heat - October 4, 2008

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Awesome. IMO he's the clear cut number 2 in the world. A match with Kampann or Condit could be his first fight I think and then he would get a hot after Fitch/Alves winner (thats after GSP/Koscheck)

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Awesome. IMO he's the clear cut number 2 in the world. A match with Kampann or Condit could be his first fight I think and then he would get a hot after Fitch/Alves winner (thats after GSP/Koscheck)

i think it could be with Martin Kampmann, cause Condit is scheduled to face off against Dan Hardy next. Well the way i look at it is ..........

we got GSP vs Kos now

Alves vs Fitch is subpost to be for the #1 Condenter, at UFC 117 8/7/10, but with GSP-Kos doing TUF show i can see the winner of this fight having to have one more fight after, since they are going to have to wait until the show is over and then wait for recovery time after the fight. Could be verse the winner of Shields/TBA or the winner of Hardy/Condit.

Shields probably vs Kampmann, Swick, Sanchez, P.Thiago

Hardy vs Condit, at UFC 120 10/16/10

Hughes vs Almeida, at UFC 117 8/7/10

If Fitch beats Alves I pray they don't give Fitch a shot but Shields instead.

I'm confident that leg humping shit won't work on Alves.

Shields humps just as much as Fitch does...

Shields vs Fitch just sounds boring to me, but to wrestling fans, it's got to be one of the best matches out there right now in the welterweight division !! don't get me wrong, they are great at what they do to win a match, but i would like to see them maybe stand up and strike vs eachother, it would be something new and different for the both of them.