UFC Versus 2 set for August.1

With its Versus debut in the books, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has already secured a second event on the cable station’s lineup. Following Sunday’s successful UFC on Versus 1 event, Versus president Jamie Davis confirmed that UFC on Versus 2 will take place on Aug. 1. The event takes place in Oakland, Calif., which hosts its first-ever UFC event, though a venue was not announced. MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) is working to confirm additional details of the late-summer show. Sunday’s debut, which took place at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo., marked a new partnership between Versus and Zuffa LLC, the parent company of both the UFC and World Extreme Cagefighting, which has been on the all-sports cable station since 2007. Upon the initial announcement of the deal in December, which also marked the extension of live WEC events on the cable station, officials announced that two 2010 UFC event also would air on Versus. There’s no word if the partnership extends beyond this year. UFC on Versus 2 takes place a month after a planned July 3 UFC 116 event, which is expected to take place in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. It also takes place four weeks before the UFC’s planned Boston debut, a pay-per-view show targeted for Bean Town’s TD Garden.