Impractical Poster wrote:Ferguson/Khabib is off.
Ironically, it's Tony who pulled out due to injury. Poor Khabib. The guy is finally healthy enough to fight and his opponent gets injured. If they can't find a replacement for Tony, Dos Santos/Rothwell will be the main event.
Think you've got two events mixed up IP.
Rothwell v Dos Santos is this Sunday afternoon at two on FS1, while Khabib v Ferguson was supposed to be next Sat. night on FOX.
Unfortunately, now Rashad Evans v Glover T is the new main event & rather than finding a replacement opponent for Khabib, they've pulled him from the card. Which REALLY sucks IMO. I'm actually a wee bit pissed about it.
OK, so Ferguson obviously can't go with blood/fluid in his lungs, but seeing as how Khabib is healthy enough to fight for the first time in two years, they should have booked a fight for him. Surely they could have found someone at '55 willing to step in against him on two weeks notice. Hell, I'll bet "Cowboy" would have stepped in for the right $$$.
They could have still bumped Evans v Teixeira up to the main event & just had Khabib fight a replacement in a 3 rounder.
Oh well, hopefully Khabib v Ferguson gets rescheduled quickly or he gets a title shot as Dos Anjos's foot should be healed by now.
As for Evans v Teixeira, I'll be cheering on my fellow Niagara Falls native, but I have a feeling that his best days are long behind him & I think the Brazilian might just stop him sometime in the last two rounds.