An injury to one of the UFC‘s bright young up-and-coming fighters has caused the UFC 140 card to be shifted.
The UFC announced that 22-year-old Canadian welterweight Rory MacDonald has been injured and forced to with draw from UFC 140, which takes place on December 10 in Toronto. The 12-1 MacDonald had been slated to face Brian Ebersole, and it’s disappointing news that one of the best young Canadians in MMA won’t be able to fight on the next major card in Canada.
Ebersole will stay on the main card and face Claude Patrick, a welterweight from Toronto who’s 14-1 in his MMA career, including 3-0 in the UFC.
Patrick had been slated to face Rich Attonito on the UFC 140 preliminary card. Attonito is expected to stay on the card, and the UFC said a new opponent for Attonito will be named soon.
UFC 140 is headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida. The other fights on the main card will be Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Tito Ortiz vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira an dMark Hominick vs. Chan Sung Jung.