UFC light heavyweight Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson (15-1) posted a photo of the cut which forced him out of this weekends UFC on FUEL TV 9 event.
Gustafsson posted the image of the cut over his left eye on his website, themauler.com, along with a message to fans.
(Translated using Google Translate)
To all of you who are wondering, I would tell you what the situation looks like, and what happened:
During Thursday’s (March 28) passes as we ran wrestling exercises I lost my balance and pitched eyebrow in a very unfortunate way when I hit my head on one burpelaren. Immediately after it happened, I went to the hospital and sewed three stitches. I was quite prepared to compete until the doctors called and told me that cuttet is so unfortunate and will not have time to heal in time until the gala.
It is of course extremely sad when träningscampet has gone very well, except for the eyebrow, I am in my best form and completely ready for the match. It is also sad for my opponent, Gegard Mousasi, who has also been training long and hard for this match.
I and my team have done everything we can to get set up and compete despite cuttet, it is unfortunately not in our hands anymore.
I am extremely sorry for this and I feel with Gegard Mousasi. The next step now is that I sit down with the team and planning the future.Thanks again for all your support!
It appears that the image is no longer on Gustafsson’s website and this image comes via MMAjunkie.com.
Gustafsson was scheduled to headliner this weekends TV event opposite Gegard Mousasi (33-3-2) and has since been replaced by teammate Ilir Latifi (7-2) on three days notice.
UFC on FUEL TV 9 is scheduled to take place this Saturday, April 6, at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. The main card will air on Fuel TV while the prelim card is set to stream live on Facebook.