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 Ask and ye shall receive.
It's been less than a week since Jake Shields went on record saying that he is feeling the itch to fight again and is interested in seeing who the Ultimate Fighting Championship has for him. According the MMAfighting.com, the UFC has quickly answered Shields's call, proposing a match up against rising star Jake Ellenberger. The fight has not yet been made official, but it has been speculated that it may take place in San Jose at an event the UFC is planning to have there on Nov. 19. It's the first the time MMA's most prominent organization has held an event in San Jose, so it will likely be wanting to put on a good show, and Shields vs. Ellenberger is a fight fans could definitely get excited about. Ellenberger has actually been asking for this fight for a while now. He believes that he has the tools to defeat Shields and that a win over Shields would put himself directly in line for the title. It's a risky move, calling out Shields, but the pay off could be huge. Shields was considered for a long time to be one of the top 10 pound-for-pound fighters in the world. He owns victories over many of the sport's greats, such as Dan Henderson, Jason Miller, Yushin Okami and Carlos Condit. Ellenberger has himself a pretty respectable resume with wins over the likes of John Howard and Mike Pyle, but Shields would by far be the greatest test he has faced so far in his career. Both men have strong wrestling backgrounds, so a very technical ground war is a possibility in this one. However, Shields is known for having very good Brazilian jiu-jitsu, so Ellenberger might want to use his wrestling in reverse to keep this fight standing.
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