The Official UFC 124 Fight Card [UPDATED]

Sean Pierson’s welcome fight will be with Matt Riddle on UFC 124.

UFC recently announced the official UFC 124 fight card. Pierson will replace injured Anthony “T.J.” Waldburger. He will face Riddle under the prelim card of the December event.

UFC 124 will feature TUF coaches, champ Georges St-Pierre and top contender Josh Koscheck, “UFC 124: St-Pierre vs. Koscheck II” takes place Dec. 11 at Montreal’s Bell Centre.

Prior to this, Pierson was scheduled to fight for the Bellator Fighting Championships’ season-two welterweight tournament but was forced to withraw due to an undisclosed injury.

He recently rebounded from a TKO victory over Ricky Goodall in an Canadian show. He also had a victory over UFC middleweight Patrick Cote’s jiu-jitsu coach, Fabio Holanda.

Riddle on the other hand fought his career in the UFC octagon. After an early exit at TUF 7, he posted consecutive decision wins before falling into the hands of Nick Osipczak via TKO at UFC 105. He rebounded with a TKO win over Damarques Johnson in August. And a disqualification victory over Greg Soto at UFC 111.

The full UFC 124 card now includes:

MAIN CARD

* Champ Georges St-Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck (for welterweight title)
* Sean McCorkle vs. Stefan Struve
* Jim Miller vs. Charles Oliveira
* Mac Danzig vs. Joe Stevenson
* Thiago Alves vs. John Howard

PRELIMINARY CARD

* Mark Bocek vs. Dustin Hazelett
* Jesse Bongfeldt vs. Rafael Natal
* Sean Pierson vs. Matthew Riddle
* Joe Doerksen vs. Dan Miller
* Ricardo Almeida vs. T.J. Grant
* Pat Audinwood vs. John Makdessi

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