(“So this ‘acromegaly‘ shit…do they carry it at GNC?”)
When Frank Mir was called up to replace Alistair Overeem in UFC 146‘s main event, former heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez was briefly left without an opponent on the card. But over the weekend, Dana White announced that Antonio Silva will be stepping up to replace Mir against Velasquez. The fight will serve as the co-main event for UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir, which goes down May 26th in Las Vegas.
Antonio Silva will be making his UFC debut against Velasquez, and hasn’t competed since his knockout loss to Daniel Cormier in the semi-finals of Strikeforce’s heavyweight tournament last September. As for Silva’s original opponent Roy Nelson, Big Country is still expected to remain on the card though a replacement opponent hasn’t been named yet. The current lineup for UFC 146 is after the jump…
PPV Main Card
Junior dos Santos vs. Frank Mir (for UFC heavyweight championship)
Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Silva (HW)
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Shane del Rosario (HW)
Mark Hunt vs. Stefan Struve (HW)
Roy Nelson vs. TBA (HW)
Preliminary card (FX)
Diego Brandao vs. Darren Elkins (FW)
Evan Dunham vs. Edson Barboza (LW)
Jason Miller vs. C.B. Dollaway (MW)
Jacob Volkmann vs. Paul Sass (LW)
Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Dan Hardy vs. Duane Ludwig (WW)
Kyle Kingsbury vs. Glover Teixeira (LHW)
Mike Brown vs. Daniel Pineda (FW)