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Guida drops to featherweight to face Hioki

ESPN staff
November 8, 2012
Clay Guida will make his featherweight debut in front of his home fans © UFC
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Clay Guida has stepped down to featherweight to face Hatsu Hioki, after he was added to the UFC on FOX 6 card to in Chicago.

Guida will make his debut at 145lbs in front of his home fans on January 26 against the Japanese fighter, who is 25-5-2 in MMA.

"I've never had a problem making 155[lbs]," Guida said in the Chicago Sun-Times. "I wrestled at 149 in college, so all I'll have to do is clean up a few things in my diet. I believe I present a tougher challenge for him than he does for me."

Guida will be looking to put recent defeats to Ben Henderson and Gray Maynard behind him, while Hioki is 2-1 in the UFC after his defeat to Ricardo Lamas in June.

Illinois native Mike Russow will also feature on the card, headlined by Demetrious Johnson and John Dodson, as he takes on Shawn Jordan.

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