(Rousimar Palhares finishes Lucio Linhares at UFC 107 last December. Five of Palhares’s last seven wins have come via heel-hook submission. Photo courtesy of MMAWeekly)
With Alan Belcher‘s main event fight against Demian Maia at UFC Fight Night 22 (September 15, Austin) nixed due to an eye injury, it’s now being reported that the Nate Marquardt vs. Rousimar Palhares feature scheduled for UFC 118 (August 28, Boston) will be pushed back two and a half weeks to serve as the Austin card’s headliner. Maia hasn’t been officially dropped from the UFN 22 lineup yet, though it seems likely that he’ll get a replacement opponent on a future event.
As for UFC 118, some shifting will need to be done to fill the empty main card slot, and potentially fill the hole that the replacement could create in the Spike TV Prelim broadcast. The lineup currently looks like this…
Main Card
Frankie Edgar vs. B.J. Penn
Randy Couture vs. James Toney
Kenny Florian vs. Gray Maynard
Nate Diaz vs. Marcus Davis
Spike TV Prelims
Gerald Harris vs. Alessio Sakara
Joe Lauzon vs. Terry Etim
Non-Televised Prelims
Andre Winner vs. Nik Lentz
John Salter vs. Dan Miller
Nick Osipczak vs. Greg Soto
Mike Pierce vs. Amilcar Alves
So…Harris vs. Sakara on the main card, and Winner vs. Lentz bumped up to the Spike broadcast? Does that work for everybody?
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I would rather see Lauzon vs Etim. I am hoping that Nate Marquardt turns out to be karma’s messenger sent to Rousimar. And I hope the message that karma wants delivered “Eff You!”. Or the golden rule would work too.