Vitor Belfort Injured and Out of UFC 147

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LAS VEGAS – As UFC president Dana White likes to say, "Bad [expletive] happens everyday."

On Saturday, White initially thought that would be the arrest of octagon girl Arianny Celeste, who was taken into custody Saturday morning by Las Vegas police.


Then the phone rang again, and White found out Vitor Belfort (21-9 MMA, 10-5 UFC) was out of the main event of June's UFC 147 event.


"I wake up this morning, and Vitor Belfort breaks his hand, and he's in [expletive] surgery," White said. "It never ends for me. Every day we get up, and bad [expletive] happens. And guess what? I can guarantee you that when I wake up tomorrow, something else is going to happen."


UFC 147 takes place June 23 at the 25,000-seat indoor arena "Mineirinho" (Estadio Jornalista Felipe Drumond) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Belfort was slated to meet fellow "The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil" coach Wanderlei Silva (34-11-1 MMA, 4-6 UFC) in UFC 147's pay-per-view headliner.


Tickets for the event went on sale this week, and White reported 13,000 seats were sold on the first day. Now he and UFC brass will scramble for a replacement. The UFC president said he has at least one candidate in mind but declined to name the potential replacement until a deal is done.


"I'm working on it," White said. "Wanderlei will fight."


White said he was uncertain how Belfort's surgery unfolded but assumed there were no issues since he hadn't received any updates. A timetable for Belfort's return has yet to be determined.


UFC officials initially announced UFC 147 at Joao Havelange Stadium (also known as Engenhao Stadium) in Rio de Janeiro. However, conflicts with the United Nations' "Rio +20" meeting, which is scheduled for June 20-22 in Rio, prompted changes. When the event was moved to Belo Horizonte, the event also lost a planned headliner between UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen.


That fight now takes place in July at UFC 148 in Las Vegas.

Wow. Honestly think it's only a matter of time before they scrap 147 all together.

 

[Slim]

Re: Vitor Belfot Breaks Hand, Pulled From UFC 147

Man now that [expletive] sucks. I mean really I was really lookin forward to seein this rematch. To seein Wandy back in action again. To seein Vitor back in action again and now Vitor goes down. This isn't going to hold anywhere near the awesomness that it would have initially had. I mean yeah he is talking about a replacement but who could garner enough interest to face off against Wandy.

Any ideas anybody?

 

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Re: Vitor Belfot Breaks Hand, Pulled From UFC 147

Alan Belcher was brought up i guess, but there's no way that mainevents a PPV so I have no clue.

 

[Slim]

Re: Vitor Belfot Breaks Hand, Pulled From UFC 147

I mean you still got Rampage wanting his "final fight" but I highly doubt they'd do a Wandy/Rampage 4

Rich has Cung Le in his next fight.

Leben rematch? nope forgot he was an idiot and got suspended

Bisping? Lombard?

 

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Re: Vitor Belfot Breaks Hand, Pulled From UFC 147

I think Bisping is likely honestly, it would be a better fight for him than his fight with Tim Boetsch especially in terms of him getting a potential title shot.

Just speculating on this though, Both Cain and JDS took basically no damage in their fights last night. Maybe they'll try to get Dos Santos vs. Velasquez II on this card to main event.

Maybe I'm asking for too much, but i think it'd be pretty fucking awesome.

 

[Slim]

That would be crazy amazing but for a card like that... I'm sure they'd want a much larger and better card.

 

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Yeah : Only reason I'm thinking it's possible is Dana said he thinks JDS can sell out a Stadium i think so too, especially in Brazil. UFC 147 is still in a stadium just not nearly as big of a stadium as it would've been for Sonnen-Silva.

In terms of popularity of Brazilian fighters in the UFC JDS is getting up there. This would be the perfect time to capitalize on that.

I'm not a huge fan of him, but i do know it'd be smart to have his next fight take place in Brazil.

 

[Slim]

they'll have plenty of fights in Brazil so we got time to see the rematch tween Cain and JDS

all we gotta do now is find a new opponent for Wandy to go all Axe Murderer on.

 

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I was thinking Rashad, and so were a lot of people i guess. After he lost to Jones there was a lot of talk about him moving to Middleweight but Shad said he wants to take a break from action.

 

[Slim]

Oh yeah I forgot all about the middleweight talk of Rashad... but I highly doubt he'd move there yet. He only lost two times. I mean yeah it'd be likely for him to move since it will be quite a while before he can get another crack at the belt. but yeah I don't see him as a middleweight just yet.

 

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Same. If it was for a championship I'd think more likely he'd make the move. Think at this point they'll go with Bisping i mean Wandy and he have history with each other anyways. Another fight i was thinking about but would be a long shot is Koscheck and Wandy. He's fought at 185 before, and this would be a good fight for him to throw his name back into the mix for a potential title shot whether it be at 185 or 170.

Really shitty though that the injury bug is around again.

 

[Slim]

yeah that first fight tween Wandy and Bisping was rather exciting and good. A rematch would be nice... specially if Wandy can take the win again.

 

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Everybody keeps bringing up Alan Belcher, and i just can't see UFC putting him in the main event of a PPV.

Another guy who i just thought about is Rich Franklin. He also has a history with Wandy. He's scheduled for a fight with Cung Le at UFC 148, but i don't think he'd mind giving that fight up to main event UFC 147.

 

[Dale]

Would Munoz take the fight? I know he's booked for a FOX or FX show that's coming up against Chris Weidman.

Fuck it, let Chael go destory Wandy then straight onto Anderson :Sonnen:

 

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Munoz could, it'd be more beneficial for him to fight Silva rather than Weidman especially if he wants to shoot up the rankings at MW.