Severe staph infection forces Antonio 'Minotauro' Nogueira out of UFC 108 main event against Cain Velasquez
by Eduardo Cruz on Nov 14, 2009 9:11 PM EST
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Star-divide.The hits just keep on comin.'
Brazilian heavyweight Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira has been pulled from the main event of UFC 108 where he was to square off against the undefeated Cain Velasquez to determine the next number one contender in the UFC’s heavyweight division.
The cause: staph.
"Nogueira got staph infection, bad, to the point now it’s in his bloodstream, and he’s probably going to have to be hospitalized and intravenously given the antibiotics," UFC president Dana White revealed at the UFC 105 post-event press conference (via brasilcombate.com.br).
The news followed the latest hit to the UFC’s star roster, after heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar was hospitalized with mononucleosis. Lesnar’s opponent, Shane Carwin, has also been pulled from the fight, following knee surgery.
"It’s crazy," White said, "In nine years of being in this business, we haven’t had this many injuries in one year."
With three of the top five heavyweights on the shelf for the foreseeable future, it’s too early to tell how White and the UFC will adjust. Sometimes bad things come in threes.
Unless White is somehow able to work his magic, the light heavyweight showdown between former 205-pound champion, Rashad Evans, and Brazilian slugger, Thiago Silva, will be promoted to top billing.
Stay tuned.
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Damn this sucks horribly
I hope he’s alright. That’s two infections in less than a year. Man his body is starting to fall apart. I’ve never ever doubted Big Nog in his career but i just don’t imagine he’ll be around for more than a couple fight. They shuold just have a carwin – shane title eliminator, give that person a title shot and by then Nog will hopefully be ready to fight again. Man i am bummed right now.
by NNR (formerly NameNotRequired) on Nov 14, 2009 11:32 PM EST up reply actions
Hmm Shane vs Carwin eh?
That’s a great matchup, NNR. Those guys are almost identical in every way! I’m surprised they haven’t offered you Joe Silva’s job yet! Heheh.
I call Shane Carwin vs Cain Velasquez! Carwin been training and said he could fight, Velasquez was called for Big Nog and is already preparing most likely, so seeing Lesnar is out and Big Nog is out, they might as well put this fight up instead. Makes sense, great fight, was supposed to happen eariler but we can get it now hopefully.
Won't happen
Carwin underwent surgery after Lesnar got sick, because Dana told him he’d have to wait for Lesnar and that he wouldn’t fight until Lesnar was back…so…nop, no Carwin.
back to Plan A
Carwin vs Velasquez was the original plan before they had to bump Carwin up to fight Lesno and bring Rothwell in to take his place.
Nog is fighting at 106
So, um, yeah. Thanks for playing.
Disastrous news
I was looking forward to this fight, terrible news for Nog as it can’t help his longevity in the sport because this is another serious staph infection, look at what happened to Randleman when he got that terrible staph. UFC 108 is officially screwed, that card is going to be the worst end of year card in recent memory, the only thing I can think of is scrap Rashad-Thiago and have Rashad-Randy and Thiago-Vera instead so it fills up the card with 2 marketable fights and eliminates a couple of fighters as potential LHW title contenders (Couture-Vera was so close that it’s unfair to dismiss either). Either that or give Randy the Tito-Forrest winner or beg Hendo and Rampage to come back and offer them as much money as they want.
all good suggestions
especially the part about bringing Dan and Rampage back. And I’ve been wanting to see Randy smash Rashad for a long time.
I’m sad to see Nog out sick, but not disappointed to lose this fight. Nog had no business fighting an up-n-comer like Cain anyway. The two items on his agenda should be avenging that BS loss to Frank Queer and fighting Lesno for the title. Anything else is a waste of his time at this stage in his career.
Cain Velasquez vs Junior Dos Santos would nicely fill the gap left by Nog on this card!
ufc injury bug sucks
alot of people lately have been getting hurt…hopefully they get hendo back n hav him fight someone. other than him i have no idea what they r gonna do. maybe vitor vs marquarte n scatch marquartes fight for that. ne 1 else have any ideas?
D'oh!
I bet Dana is starting to wish he’d backed down to M1 Global now… :) What’s up with all these injuries, are they just “not as tough as they used to be” or training too hard? (admittedly some of these injuries/illnesses are worse than others.
It's all Dana's fault
that he’s short on backups for upcoming matches. That’s what happens when you try to stage 5 cards in 8 weeks to smother out Strikeforce (which still didn’t work.) If Dana had ignored SF and done the usual 1 card/month he’d have a lot more talent to choose from when a fight falls through.
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