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Overeem-Mir bout added to UFC’s 20th anniversary card

By ADAM HILL LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
September 5, 2013 - 6:40 pm
 
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Ultimate Fighter Championship fighter Alistair Overeem is seen at a press conference promoting UFC 156 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (Jessica Ebelhar/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Another major fight has been added to UFC 167 as Alistair Overeem will fight Las Vegan Frank Mir at the MGM Grand on Nov. 16.

Both fighters will enter the bout on losing streaks as Overeem has been knocked out twice in a row and Mir has suffered three straight defeats.

The heavyweight contest joins a welterweight title bout between Johny Hendricks and Georges St. Pierre and a recently announced light heavyweight matchup between Chael Sonnen and Rashad Evans on a stacked card as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of UFC 1.

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