British lightweight prospect Andre Winner has had to wait nearly four months before treading the boards to the cage again. This time he will be walking out to the crowd in North Carolina as part of the UFC Fight Night 21 card, taking on tricky Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu stylist Rafaello Oliveira. “Oliveira is an aggressive, wild striker with a solid jiu-jitsu background,” states the Rough House fighter, before adding confidently, “he lets you think you are getting out of things before using that to set up something else. He is quite crafty in his grappling, but I have been working my ground game and wrestling.” Winner is known to have fast hands, a good chin, ...

The match will use the muaythai format, although elbows will be disallowed at the request of Van Damme who is an actor and doesn’t want his face cut up or disfigured. Somluck will be paid just over $100,000 which does not include the income from broadcasting. "I said I wasn’t lying," said Somluck. "I thought he was of much larger stature. But when we were standing next to each other, he wasn’t any bigger than me. So, I’m confident now. I’m better in muaythai techniques and I will have fun kicking the star. However, I won’t be careless and will keep training myself." Somluck is also hoping to be able to fight other international martial arts stars. from BloodyElbow.com