UFC 153 Loses Main and Co-Main Events
With all the injuries in the UFC these days, I didn’t find it very noteworthy that Rampage Jackson pulled out of his fight against Glover Teixeira today after sustaining an injury. The latest development is that featherweight champion Jose Aldo has also pulled out of his title fight against Frankie Edgar today because of, you guessed it, an injury suffered during training. So that’s both the main event, and the co-main event ruined for UFC 153, a ppv event being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Here’s Dana’s reaction via his twitter account.
@danawhite: Rampage is hurt and out of UFC 153 RIO. SUCKS!!!!!!
@danawhite: Now Aldo is out with foot injury. Main and co main in the same day!! Another amazing day at the UFC. We have some work to do
Quite the conundrum, but in light of the recent cancellation of UFC 151 after an injury derailed the main event, I’d like to think that the UFC is ready for this eventuality and has measures in place to correct the situation. Cancelling events is not the way to go, and I’m sure we will see some high caliber replacements to salvage what is otherwise a very solid card.
UPDATE: It looks like Dana may have jumped the gun a bit. After seeing Dana’s tweet, Aldo was reported to have responded with the following (translated)
Jose Aldo: I don’t know any about all that. I’m just fine, just finished training for today.
UPDATE: Well, It’s official, Aldo is out. His foot was injured during a motorcycle accident last week, but Aldo was determined to work through it and had shown signs of improvement during training. After struggling with pain during sparring, Nova Uniao head coach Andre Pederneiras decided to pull the plug on the fight. He had this to say.
It’s been almost 10 days since Aldo’s motorcycle accident and he had improved greatly. His injuries had already healed almost completely, but his right foot was very swollen. Today, during his first sparring workout, he couldn’t plant his right foot because of the pain. Because of his and our overwhelming desire that this fight against Edgar would happen, we tried to push it a bit, but we talked after practice and saw that he wasn’t able to train for the fight. We would like the fight postponed but the opponent kept
Aldo didn’t want to pull out of this fight, here is his statement.
I apologize to my fans for not being able to fight at UFC 153, something I really wanted. It was a huge thrill to defend this belt at the last event in the city, and it would be even more wonderful to do it again now, against an opponent like Frank Edgar. I tried everything until the last second to be inside the Octagon, but it didn’t happen. Hopefully the UFC keeps the opponent and postpones this meeting, because I really want to face him.
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The UFC is slowly turning into an empty room with the lights dimming.
You might be right bb, it will be very interesting to see how the UFC handles this. It’s not a weeks notice or anything, but I wonder if they have implemented any countermeasure for this kind of thing. Like maybe they could have special arrangements to have a replacement fighter well in advance of the event. So this replacement fighter knows he might have to fight if something goes wrong, and they could pay him like $1000 just for being the safety net, and if it doesn’t happen he keeps that money. If he actually has to fight though, he would obviously get an appropriate fight purse.
Yeah, I’m curious to see how they remedy this consistent rash. Something has to give some where in the process. I personally think they to implement something far more strategic and secure than just a list of ‘plan B’ fighters…but I love that you’re thinking of solutions, BV.
On another note (I’m on the iPad so I can’t message you through the playground) – Wanna get high and check out the weigh ins next Friday? They are at Maple Leaf Gardens and it’s free to the public (including the stoned public). 4:00pm
Anyone else gonna be downtown next Friday?
4pm? that sucks man, I would have to leave way earlier to get downtown in friday traffic. I’ll see how busy it is at work, it’s a possibility, but not likely. I have plans with my girl after work too so I wouldn’t be able to chill for too long.
Did you buy tickets for the event?
No, I promised myself after UFC 129 I wouldn’t go to another one unless it was on foreign soil. Toronto MMA fans should be outlawed, or at least the ones from the suburbs!
I understand about Friday, no probs. If anything changes let me know. This is one of those things that is on my MMA bucket list – I have to check it out.
Look for me when you watch the weigh ins, I’ll be the white guy in a Tapout shirt and a baseball cap
I know what you mean, but I think it had more to do with alcohol than anything else. The people sitting beside me were cool at first, but after a bunch of beers they were shouting and threatening each other. If those boys were smoking weed that would have never happened
Wow, sounds like you’re gonna stick out like a sore thumb at the weigh ins…
LOL Anderson Silva vs Stephan Bonnar at 153… what a joke.
It’s a finger in the damn, but it won’t stop the greater leak. The up side being we get to see Anderson fight more than twice this year (which is White Buffalo rare), however he won’t be fighting so much as he’ll be playing with Bonnar like a cat does a mouse.
Anyone know if this is at a catch weight or is a real MW Title fight?
It’s at 205, so expect to see a Silva vs Griffin type of fight where Anderson clowns Bonnar for a while before knocking him out with a jab.
It’s nice to see Anderson fight and everything, but here’s what bothers me. This guy doesn’t have too many fights left in his career, and to waste one of them on Bonnar really sucks. Not to take anything away from Bonnar, he’s a tough dude and a good fighter, but he’s not at Anderson’s level, he’s nowhere near the top 10, and it’s kind of like Rich Franklin’s fights lately. A fan-friendly fight that means absolutely nothing.
$ on bonnar
Damn right, Kansas. There’s nothing to be made betting on Silva, so why not toss a bit on Bonnar. The last time the odds were like this St.Pierre was fighting Serra for the first time…
Looks like Bonnar got the big name fight he wanted. He’s going to fight for his life and will put on an inspired performance.
Anderson has been saying he wants to fight for 6 more years, sounds crazy, but he’ll be around for a while.