(Getty)On Tuesday, UFC 153 fell aside as Jose Aldo drawn out from the top level battle with Frankie Edgar with a personal injury simply hours soon after Quinton Jackson pulled beyond his bout using Glover Teixeira. Wednesday, that October minute card inside Rio de Janeiro had been glued to come back plus the assistance involving UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva.
As USA Today described plus Yahoo! Sports confirmed along with UFC president Dana White, Silva will probably move approximately mild heavyweight to struggle Stephan Bonnar inside three-round main event. Teixeira will these days confront fellow Brazilian Fabio Maldonado. Antonio Rodrigio Nogueira appeared to be filming a financial by using Silva if the UFC called in regards to the Bonnar fight. He offered to struggle and can these days encounter Dave Herman.
The UFC was compelled in order to scramble once incidents confronted an additional card. UFC 151 had been recently canceled when Dan Henderson appeared to be damaged gentle heavyweight champ Jon Jones unapproved some sort of bout having Chael Sonnen. Jones' refusal to fight grabbed White's ire thus they has been thrilled to uncover his or her various other champions might step up as soon as needed.
"This is actually old-school UFC. A unit card is within jeopardy, however folks which have been entire world winners and superstars stepped up as well as dived in as well as rescued the card. This is actually why this fans adore this sport plus why all of us proceeded a new 12-year run without canceling a good event."
Bonnar receiving the phone to be able to deal with Silva is definitely your surprise while a great number of middleweights are clamoring to combat to the belt. His past deal with seemed to be a choice over Kyle Kingsbury during UFC 139. Bonnar is better known pertaining to his / her onslaught using Forrest Griffin with the primary finale regarding "The Ultimate Fighter." Their awesome attack is usually credited with regard to helping develop this UFC into your corporation it's today.
Since that bout within 2005, his career has become up along with down. At 14-7, your dog doesn't possess the curriculum vitae that will earn a concept shot, but his ability to adopt a combat on quick observe and also the proven fact that Silva's belt isn't within the tier established the right rage for Bonnar to have the massive fight.
Though they have completely outclassed during center pounds with regard to years, Silva features fought at easy heavyweight before. In 2009, he pulled out there original gentle heavyweight champ Forrest Griffin in the very first round. He knocked out there James Irvin around 1:01 around 2008.
Silva and also Nogueira together fought against on UFC 134, the very first Brazilian card considering 1998. They the two claimed through knockout when in front of a raucous crowd. It's certainly not amazing to check out all of them both want to adopt about arguements in front of their home audience again.
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