UFC 196: Werdum vs. Velasquez 2 [2/6/16]

gonna show up in a sombrero mexican t-shirt and mini mexican flags waving around to watch these fights WAR CAIN

WARDOOM!!!

lmao cain is out due to a back injury

stipe is now in

lol Cain is made of glass. Dude needs to stay out of the title picture. Bring him in once a year for a co-main to get a paycheck and crush a can.

lol him and khabib need to leave aka dudes can't stay healthy for shit 2 weeks away thought he was actually gonna make it tho he didn't deserve a rematch

a lot of fighters that have left AKA said they train retarded there.

I remember when Cain pulled out of a fight for hurting his knee doing sprawling drills when he was about to fight JDS who is a striker lol his dumb ass coaches had people diving at his knees when he was fighting a guy with no threat of a take down.

AKA does that old school dude bro flipping tractor tires and full contact sparring bullshit. They got no science behind their shit.

Lmao now werdum is out

lol Stipe is probably pissed, he's never gonna see a title shot.

Hendricks vs. Wonderboy is now the Main Event and it's been moved to Fox Sports 1 lol

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-c...196-is-shifted-to-fox-sports-1-212916963.html


With no clear option to save the day, UFC 196 is being taken off of pay-per-view and made into a Fox Sports 1 card, UFC president Dana White told Yahoo Sports on Tuesday.

The show will be headlined by a welterweight bout between ex-champion Johny Hendricks and Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson. It will still be held on Feb. 6 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.

The trouble for the card began on Sunday, when former heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was forced to withdraw from the event, citing a back injury. The UFC quickly offered the bout to Stipe Miocic, who accepted. But as Miocic was doing interviews Monday to promote the reconfigured show, shocking news broke that champion Fabricio Werdum was pulling out.

Werdum said he had several injuries, but would have been willing to fight through them to compete against Velasquez. But he wasn't willilng to do the same against Miocic, so the heavyweight bout was scrapped entirely.

Several fighters, most notably Josh Barnett and Ben Rothwell, volunteered to take on Miocic in the main event of UFC 196 for the heavyweight title. That for many reasons was a problem, though, for the UFC, not the least of which is because they are fighting each other on Fox on Saturday in Newark, N.J.

So the heavyweight fight has been yanked from the show and the rest of the card will go on as planned, with Hendricks-Thompson as the main event. Also set for the main card is a heavyweight bout between Roy Nelson and Jared Rosholt; a light heavyweight clash between Ovince Saint Preux and Rafael Cavalcante and a flyweight bout between Joseph Benavidez and Zach Makovsky.

shouldve made borg vs tank the new main event

im hyped about that Hendricks vs Wonderboy tho. on paper its a dope fight and it should be Wonderboys biggest win and make his star shine brighter but i think Hendricks is gonna hump him.

from ppv to fs1, shit im down for that!

As much as I like free, I was really looking forward to see if "Sea Level" Cain was actually a thing or if Werdum was gonna destroy again.

MAIN CARD
FOX Sports 1, 10 p.m. ET
Johny Hendricks vs. Stephen Thompson
Roy Nelson vs. Jared Rosholt
Rafael Cavalcante vs. Ovince Saint Preux
Joseph Benavidez vs. Zach Makovsky
Misha Cirkunov vs. Alex Nicholson
Mike Pyle vs. Sean Spencer


PRELIMINARY CARD
FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET
Josh Burkman vs. K.J. Noons
Damian Grabowski vs. Derrick Lewis
Ray Borg vs. Justin Scoggins
Noad Lahat vs. Diego Rivas


PRELIMINARY CARD
UFC Fight Pass, 7 p.m. ET
Mickey Gall vs. Mike Jackson
Artem Lobov vs. Alex White

@2-0-Sixx can you change the title to

UFC Fight Night 82: Hendricks vs. Thompson 2/6/16

LMAO apparently Wonderboy just found out his fight was upgraded to 5 rounds. Neither Joe Silva or Wonderboy's manager relayed the information to him.

mickey 'the goat' gall

Mickey Gall is gonna wreck CM Punk lol

Something tells me Punk doesn't show up for the fight due to "injury".

FLYING KNEE!! that was dope as fuck.

First entry in to the KO of the year discussions.