The award for most highly anticipated preliminary bout goes to light heavyweight youngster Jon Jones for his scrap with Jake O’Brien. Jones holds a perfect 8-0 pro mark, including his utter destruction of Stephan Bonnar in his last outing at UFC 94.

Get real, how many 21-year-olds get the opportunity to showcase their skills on such a monumental stage. Another win this weekend and Jones can very well become the youngest UFC fighter to ever legitimately challenge for a strap.

Speaking of showcasing, it appears the UFC served Alan Belcher up for the whopping of his life as Japanese sensation Yoshihiro Akiyama is set to make his Octagon debut. Akiyama claims a sensational 12-1 mark and will probably beat Belcher with one arm tied behind his back.

We’ve said this a time or two before about a Japanese import making their UFC debut, haven’t we?

Former welterweight top contender Jon Fitch looks to avenge the loss of his American Kickboxing Academy teammate Josh Koscheck after the controversial fighter got slapped silly by Paulo Thiago at UFC 95 earlier this year.

Both fighters are legit contenders to the 170 pound crown, however Fitch is much closer and looks to prove it in order to earn himself another five round affair.

Out with the old and in with the new, passing of the torch, whatever you might want to tag it, the Michael Bisping and Dan Henderson middleweight tussle would easily be the main event on any other UFC event, yet it’s the third headliner in this show.

That’s the best part about this event, the depth justifies the hoopla.

With a win, either fighter could make a claim for being next in the pecking order for champion Anderson Silva’s title, just behind the winner of the Nate Marquardt-Damian Maia bout at UFC 102.

Close fight to call. It could very well be a split decision either way.

Role reversals. It wasn’t too long ago that a 24-year-old Georges St-Pierre found himself in his first title fight against the division’s stud in Matt Hughes. Although he dropped that UFC 50 fight back in 2004, he has gone on to dominate the weight class since.