By FCF Staff
The Fight Club’s upcoming December 10th, “Devastation” event has a new main event, as the Edmonton based promotion has announced that Chase Degenhardt is injured and will no longer face middleweight Craig Brown as scheduled. In its place, Chad Cox (5-2) will now face former King of the Cage Canadian champ Nich Hinchliffe (17-6) for the vacant TFC Canadian middleweight title.
Hinchliffe will head into the bout having won back-to-back bouts over Daniel McWilliams and most recently Mike Hackert, after being submitted by UFC vet Kalib Starnes this past July.
Cox is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Nordine Talbe at the recent W-1 card on October 23rd, which was the Nova Scotia fighter’s first appearance since 2008.
“Hinchcliffe and Cox are both top level Canadian middleweights and we would be proud to have either as our Canadian champ,” TFC president Mark Sinclair was quoted saying in a press release from the promotion. “Degenhardt, Brown, and (Cody) Krahn will all be in line for our new champ’s future title defenses.”
Here is the line-up to date for the December 10th “Devastation” card, which will be hosted by Edmonton’s Shaw Conference Center.
185 lbs: Chad Cox (5-2) vs. Nick Hinchliffe (17-6) for the CND MW. Title
205 lbs: Victor Valimaki (16-8) vs. Karl Knothe (17-6)
170 lbs: Rio Wells (4-0) vs. Louis Carles (7-2)
155 lbs: Dia Grant (2-3) vs. Alex Ricci (0-0)
135 lbs: Sy Jewett (2-0) vs. TBA
155 lbs: Steve Beaumont (1-0) vs. Eric Andre (2-0)
170 lbs: Mike Scarcello (1-0) vs. Brandon Dumais (0-0)
Hvywt: Tom Benosocky (1-3) vs. Bobby Kalmakoff (2-7)
185 lbs: Travis Quesnel (1-0) vs. TBA
