Lower than three hours away from struggle night time, UFC 313 has taken successful. Two, to be precise.
The promotion despatched out a discover that the heavyweight conflict between Curtis Blaydes and Rizvan Kuniev was formally off after Blaydes got here down with an sickness. Initially, the bout was scheduled to be the featured prelim of the night.
Additionally on the chopping block was John Castaneda’s featherweight scrap towards Chris Gutierrez after Castaneda grew to become ailing.
Blaydes and Castaneda are simply the newest victims of a cursed UFC 313 card
UFC 313 has confronted a slew of struggles in current weeks, none larger than the withdrawal of Dan Hooker who was scheduled to face Justin Gaethje within the night’s co-main occasion. From the second the struggle was introduced, followers had been salivating to see two of one of the best scrappers within the sport go toe-to-toe.
Sadly, ‘The Hangman’ was pressured to bow out after breaking his hand while coaching. Gaethje stays on the cardboard, however he’ll now be combating the returning Rafael Fiziev who surrendered a majority resolution loss to ‘The Highlight’ at UFC 286.
It is going to be Fiziev’s first struggle since struggling a leg damage within the second spherical of his September 2023 assembly with Mateusz Gamrot.
Joshua Van was initially booked to struggle Bruno Silva, however Silva was in the end changed by Rei Tsuruya, although the rationale stays unknown. A heavyweight struggle between Jhonata Diniz and Vitor Petrino was additionally canned again in January after Petrino suffered lateral epicondylitis in each elbows.
With Blaydes and Castaneda each out, UFC 313 drops from 12 fights to 10. Fingers crossed we don’t get any extra late scraps with the occasion mere minutes away.
