(“mumblegumblemurglegurgle…anyway, you do that for like 10 minutes and usually the guy cums.” / Screen-cap via FuelTV)
About a month ago, we reported that TUF 17 finalist Uriah Hall would face Canadian middleweight Nick Ring at UFC on FOX Sports 1 1: Shogun vs. Sonnen (August 17th, Boston). On Friday, we posted a video of Hall using one of his infamous spinning back-kicks to drop a training partner who had the audacity to kick him in the head. Today, we learned that Ring has withdrawn from his fight against Hall under mysterious circumstances. Coincidence?? Yeah, it’s probably a coincidence.
Though details are sketchy at this time, MMAJunkie reports that Ring has been forced out of his scheduled match against Hall, and will be replaced by Josh Samman — a fellow TUF 17 vet who was eliminated by Kelvin Gastelum in the show’s semi-finals, but returned at the TUF 17 Finale to score a second-round TKO against Kevin Casey. So it’s like Hall and Samman never left the show, and are now competing for the TUF 17 bronze medal, while Dylan Andrews sits in the corner shouting “what about meeeeeeeee?!?”
The current lineup of ‘UFC on FOX Sports 1 1′ is after the jump…
MAIN CARD (FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET)
Mauricio Rua vs. Chael Sonnen
Travis Browne vs. Alistair Overeem
Urijah Faber vs. Yuri Alcantara
Thiago Alves vs. Matt Brown
Uriah Hall vs. Josh Samman
Michael Johnson vs. Joe Lauzon
PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX Sports 1, 6 p.m. ET)
Michael McDonald vs. Brad Pickett
Conor McGregor vs. Andy Ogle
Mike Brown vs. Akira Corassani
Diego Brandao vs. Daniel Pineda
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook, 4:30 p.m. ET)
Manny Gamburyan vs. Cole Miller
Cody Donovan vs. Ovince St. Preux
Ramsey Nijem vs. James Vick