Rashad Evans Suffers Leg Injury, Out of UFC 170 Fight With Daniel Cormier


(Photo by Ryan Loco via @SugaRashadEvans)

Just nine days before he was set to square off with Daniel Cormier in the light-heavyweight co-main event of UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann, Rashad Evans has dropped out of the fight due to a leg injury. The UFC confirmed the news today, adding that Cormier has been pulled off the card altogether.

Details on Evans’s injury are scarce, although UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta told Yahoo!’s Kevin Iole that Evans would need four weeks of rehab. (Iole’s report called it a knee injury, by the way.) Depending on Rashad’s recovery, the UFC may reschedule the Evans/Cormier match to take place at UFC 172: Jones vs. Teixeira (April 26th, Baltimore). We’ll update you if that becomes official.

As a result of the bout-scratch, the welterweight matchup between Rory MacDonald and Demian Maia now becomes UFC 170’s co-main event. It also means that Ronda Rousey will have to carry this rag-tag card pretty much on her own.


(Photo by Ryan Loco via @SugaRashadEvans)

Just nine days before he was set to square off with Daniel Cormier in the light-heavyweight co-main event of UFC 170: Rousey vs. McMann, Rashad Evans has dropped out of the fight due to a leg injury. The UFC confirmed the news today, adding that Cormier has been pulled off the card altogether.

Details on Evans’s injury are scarce, although UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta told Yahoo!’s Kevin Iole that Evans would need four weeks of rehab. (Iole’s report called it a knee injury, by the way.) Depending on Rashad’s recovery, the UFC may reschedule the Evans/Cormier match to take place at UFC 172: Jones vs. Teixeira (April 26th, Baltimore). We’ll update you if that becomes official.

As a result of the bout-scratch, the welterweight matchup between Rory MacDonald and Demian Maia now becomes UFC 170′s co-main event. It also means that Ronda Rousey will have to carry this rag-tag card pretty much on her own.