Rousimar Palhares Replaces Injured Luiz Cane against Yushin Okami at UFC 150

[No More Sorrow]

Another day, another UFC injury.

Luiz Cane (12-4 MMA, 4-4 UFC), who was expected to make his middleweight debut at August's UFC 150 event, has been forced to withdraw from a planned matchup with Yushin Okami (26-7 MMA, 10-4 UFC), UFC officials today announced.


Stepping in for Cane is Brazilian submission ace Rousimar Palhares (14-3 MMA 7-3 UFC).


Featuring a lightweight title fight between current champ Benson Henderson and former title holder, "UFC 150: Henderson vs. Edgar II" takes place Aug. 11 at Denver's Pepsi Center.


The evening's main card, which is expected to feature the new Palhares vs. Okami fight, airs on pay-per-view.


Palhares looks to rebound from a disappointing loss to Alan Belcher at May's UFC on FOX 3 event. "Toquinho" saw a three-fight win streak snapped when Belcher shucked off Palhares' signature leglock attacks and earned a first-round TKO in impressive ground-and-pound fashion.


Meanwhile, Okami looks to snap a two-fight win streak after dropping back-to-back outings against Tim Boetsch and Anderson Silva. While Okami was never a threat in the title fight with Silva, he was leading comfortably on the cards over Boetsch when "The Barbarian" launched a furious third-round come-from-behind assault.

Another Injury which really sucks, but a very good replacement in Palhares. Much better fight in terms of ranking fighters at 185.

 

[The Cork]

Awesome.

Weird how Okami was widely considered #2 in the division just a couple of fights back, now he's a heel hook away from being cut.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Yeah it's crazy how much it all changed, I'm not a big Okami fan honestly. He trains with Chael so that's really the only reason I usually like to see him win. Except in this upcoming fight though