ROTHWELL OUT, PEROSH IN
A last second change has been made to this weekend's UFC 110 card in Australia as Ben Rothwell has been forced to drop out of his fight against Mirko CroCop due to illness, and will be replaced by veteran fighter, Anthony Perosh.
Also the Australian undercard rematch between Elvis Sinosic and Chris Haseman has been pulled off the card completely due to a late shoulder injury to Sinosic.
The UFC announced by moves on Thursday, while also stating that the card will stand at a total of 9 bouts for the Sunday afternoon show.
Anthony Perosh (10-5), who trains along with Elvis Sinosic in Sydney, Australia, gets the call to step in on short notice and face the former Pride Grand Prix winner.
Winning his last fight by TKO in December, Perosh steps in just a day before the official weigh-in for the event, but with the bout being contested at heavyweight it shouldn't present any problems.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CroCop cut in sparring, required stitches, still fighting UFC 110
Just 24 hours after learning that his kickboxer opponent Ben Rothwell is out ot UFC 110 and will be replaced by a ground fighter, Mirko ‘CroCop’ Filipovic has reportedly had more bad news. According to sources in Croatia, he has received a bad cut in a pre-fight sparring workout and has had to have stitches.
Croatian website MMA Axion reported this morning that Filipovic was sparring with his team mate Sasa Mucnjak when he received a bad cut above the eyeline. The cut was stitched and Filipovic has declined to pull out of the fight, saying he will not let weeks of hard preparation go to waste.
But those weeks of hard preparation were to face a kickboxing stylist and yesterday Ben Rothwell was pulled off the card because of an infection and replaced by Anthony Perosh, a second-degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a completely different style to Rothwell.
The UFC allegedly asked Randy Couture and Quinton ‘Ramapge’ Jackson if they would take the fight with Filipovic at short notice but both turned it down flat. Perosh - who has an 0-2 record in the UFC from 2006 - took it on two days notice on the understanding he would get a four-fight contract out of it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Event: UFC 110
Location: Sydney, Australia
Date: Sunday February 21st, 2010 (airs Saturday @ 10pm in the US)
Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Wanderlei Silva vs Michael Bisping
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs Anthony Perosh
Joe Stevenson vs. George Sotiropoulos
Ryan Bader vs. Keith Jardine
Undercard:
Brian Foster vs. Chris Lytle
James Te Huna vs. Igor Pokrajac
CB Dollaway vs. Goran Reljic
Stephan Bonnar vs Krzysztof Soszynski