UFC Belfast: Ian McCall out of Neil Seery bout due to illness

For the 3rd time this year, Ian McCall has had a scheduled UFC fight cancelled at the last minute.

We wish we were making this story up, but unfortunately it’s all too true. Yet another Ian McCall fight has been cancelled, making it 7 in the last 3 years, and 3 times since July of this year. MMAjunkie reported on Friday that McCall became ill prior to this morning’s official weigh-ins, and had to withdraw from tomorrow’s UFC Belfast feature prelim bout vs. Neil Seery. Reportedly, McCall was suffering from food poisoning.

“Uncle Creepy” was slated to fight Justin Scoggins at UFC 201, but the bout was scrapped just days out from the event after Scoggins was way over the flyweight limit. McCall was rebooked for a UFC 203 showdown with Ray Borg, only for Borg to pull out after he was hospitalized with an illness. Now it’s McCall who is forced to withdraw at the last minute, which means Seery’s retirement bout has been put off.

As for Seery, who weighed in at 126 and will receive his show money, he doesn’t plan to retire under these circumstances, but as he told MMAjunkie, he is devastated and may not even attend the event.

“Nothing I say is going to change a thing – it’s disappointing. I’m, disgusted really,” Seery said. “To be honest, I don’t even know if I’m going to go to the show. It’s happened to me before when I fought for a previous promotion. It was the exact same thing, and I stood on the scales and I went to the show and it’s just heartbreaking watching everyone else do that walk. I put a hell of a lot into this. I was offered the fight probably 10 weeks ago and I put everything on hold.”

UFC Fight Night 99, which is headlined by a middleweight rematch between Gegard Mousasi and Uriah Hall, will now proceed with 13 bouts, with 9 on the preliminary card instead of the originally scheduled 10.

For the 3rd time this year, Ian McCall has had a scheduled UFC fight cancelled at the last minute.

We wish we were making this story up, but unfortunately it’s all too true. Yet another Ian McCall fight has been cancelled, making it 7 in the last 3 years, and 3 times since July of this year. MMAjunkie reported on Friday that McCall became ill prior to this morning’s official weigh-ins, and had to withdraw from tomorrow’s UFC Belfast feature prelim bout vs. Neil Seery. Reportedly, McCall was suffering from food poisoning.

“Uncle Creepy” was slated to fight Justin Scoggins at UFC 201, but the bout was scrapped just days out from the event after Scoggins was way over the flyweight limit. McCall was rebooked for a UFC 203 showdown with Ray Borg, only for Borg to pull out after he was hospitalized with an illness. Now it’s McCall who is forced to withdraw at the last minute, which means Seery’s retirement bout has been put off.

As for Seery, who weighed in at 126 and will receive his show money, he doesn’t plan to retire under these circumstances, but as he told MMAjunkie, he is devastated and may not even attend the event.

“Nothing I say is going to change a thing – it’s disappointing. I’m, disgusted really,” Seery said. “To be honest, I don’t even know if I’m going to go to the show. It’s happened to me before when I fought for a previous promotion. It was the exact same thing, and I stood on the scales and I went to the show and it’s just heartbreaking watching everyone else do that walk. I put a hell of a lot into this. I was offered the fight probably 10 weeks ago and I put everything on hold.”

UFC Fight Night 99, which is headlined by a middleweight rematch between Gegard Mousasi and Uriah Hall, will now proceed with 13 bouts, with 9 on the preliminary card instead of the originally scheduled 10.