Last week it was announced Noke would fight German Peter Sobotta on the card, which would create history as the first mixed martial arts event to be staged in Victoria.

Until recently the sport had been banned in Victoria, but after significant lobbying from the UFC, including president Dana White, the ban was overturned and the organisation has responded by booking a massive card for the event.

Noke's training partner Carlos Condit will headline the event when he fights current champion Robbie Lawler for the welterweight title.

But for the next 12 weeks Noke will be focusing on Sobotta, a fighter who boasts a record of 15 wins and five losses from 20 bouts, with 10 wins coming via way of submission.

"To be honest I don't know much about him. I have known for a while I was fighting on this card but I only found out this week who I was fighting against," Noke said.

"After I had the fight in May I wanted to get straight back into it and fight as soon as possible, but they wanted to hold me back for this event so I'm really looking forward to it.

"Because I'd been out of action for so long prior to fighting Jonavin I had a fair bit of ring rust but I got through that and I'm in good shape heading into this fight."

After the Webb bout, Noke took time off to travel Australia and conduct some coaching clinics, including one in Dubbo, and since being back in the United States he has been mixing work with pleasure.

He recently joined with some friends to ride motorbikes from New Mexico to the South Dakota town of Sturgis, and most weekends he spends time wakeboarding.

"I find those things really relax me and they break up all the training I do," he said.

"Even though I'm not in fight camp yet I'm still training a couple of times a day, five days a week so it's great to have an outlet outside of training and fighting.

"I'll go into camp in the next week or so, and from there it will be full on preparing for the Melbourne fight."

Sobotta looms as a dangerous opponent for Noke, and will ride a seven-fight win streak into their bout.

His record of 15 wins from 20 fights is punctuated by 10 of those wins coming via submission, and Noke is acutely aware of the way his opponent will try to approach the fight.

"I'll try and study some tape of his fights in the next couple of weeks but his record suggests he's a very good technical fighter," Noke said.

"Even though I don't know much about him it's probably going to be easier preparing for this fight than it was for Jonavin, because I trained with Jonavin prior to that fight and we knew each other inside out.

"I can go into this fight and study Sobotta with an open mind and hopefully having that one bout already under my belt will help me come November 15.

"It's awesome that I'm going to be a part of history. It's going to be a big event for the UFC in a place that is the sporting capital of Australia, and the talk is there will be something like 70,000 there so the atmosphere will be massive."