Bahadurzada, Green off FOX 8 with injuries
Injuries continued to alter the UFC on FOX 8 card on Thursday.
Welterweight Siyar Bahadurzada and lightweight Bobby Green were forced off the card scheduled for Seattle’s KeyArena on July 27 due to injury, FOX Sports has learned.
#BREAKING: FOX 8 main card WW fighter @SiyarTheGreat is injured. @MMA_Voelker will step in to fight @Ruthless_RL on July 27th in Seattle.
— UFC Tonight (@UFCTonight) July 11, 2013
Bobby Voelker (24-9) will fill in for Bahadurzada --- an injury replacement himself after Tarec Saffiedine was injured --- for a main card bout against Robbie Lawler (20-9).
Voelker, a Strikeforce product, fell in his UFC debut, albeit a very controversial decision to Patrick Cote at UFC 158 in March.
Voelker had been scheduled to fight at the second UFC on FOX Sports 1 event in Indianapolis on Aug. 28.
#BREAKING: We've got another injury on our hands. @BobbyKGreen is out of his FOX 8 fight. @MeansTim will step in to fight @lastcall155
— UFC Tonight (@UFCTonight) July 11, 2013
Green was originally slated to fight Danny Castillo (15-5) on the undercard. Tim Means (18-4) will now step in to fight Castillo.
The moves come a day after the Matt Mitrione vs. Brendan Schaub
heavyweight fight was scrubbed. Mitrione injured himself in
training and the fight will be rescheduled for a later date,
according to MMAFighting.com.
