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UFC Vegas 100 takes two main hits as former champion and 31-fight veteran withdraw from landmark occasion

UFC Vegas 100 has suffered two late hits to its line-up. Dana White plans to celebrate a century of shows at the UFX APEX facility in Las Vegas with a stacked card of fights, which will take place on Saturday night. Welterweight contenders Neil Magny and Carlos Prates will headline the show that will feature

UFC Vegas 100 takes two main hits as former champion and 31-fight veteran withdraw from landmark occasion

UFC Vegas 100 has suffered two late hits to its line-up.

Dana White plans to have fun a century of reveals on the UFX APEX facility in Las Vegas with a stacked card of fights, which is able to happen on Saturday evening.

Welterweight contenders Neil Magny and Carlos Prates will headline the present that may function former ONE Championship titleholder Reinier de Ridder’s promotional debut.

Nevertheless, two fan favorites have withdrawn from the cardboard up to now 24 hours.

Cody Garbrandt of the United States enters the Octagon for a bantamweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at T-Mobile Arena on December 16, ...

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Cody Garbrandt and Nicolas Dalby are out of UFC Vegas 100

Former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt was imagined to face Miles Johns in one of the anticipated UFC Vegas 100 matchups.

Sadly, ‘No Love’ has pulled out of his battle. The information was first reported by BJPENN.com and has since been corroborated by a number of reporters with sources near the scenario.

It’s presently unclear what compelled Garbrandt off the cardboard. The 33-year-old was initially imagined to face Johns at UFC Vegas 98 final month, however the battle was moved again to November 9 for an undisclosed motive.

Now the battle is off once more. The hope is that Johns will be capable of discover a late alternative to face, however with only a few days till battle evening that is probably not potential.

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Nicolas Dalby can also be out of his UFC Vegas 100 battle in opposition to Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos, with promotional newcomer Zach Scroggin already introduced as his alternative.

The 31-fight MMA veteran took to social media to disclose that he withdrew over per week in the past after struggling an harm.

“Sadly, my battle on Saturday is off on account of an harm on my aspect,” Dalby wrote on his Instagram story. “We knowledgeable UFC final Monday and I wished to attend for them to announce it earlier than my very own announcement.

“It sucks. I used to be fully prepared. Weight was on level, and I used to be leaner than I’ve ever been earlier than. However the severity of the harm merely didn’t align with the time left for the battle.

“I wasn’t capable of transfer correctly in any respect so it will have been a s*** battle for Elizeu, UFC, and the followers. So we needed to make the powerful choice of pulling out of this battle.

“That is the primary time ever I’ve had to do that in my skilled profession in over 30 fights and 15 years, so it wasn’t a choice taken evenly… “I’ll take a while now to rehab intensively and hopefully be able to battle once more round February.”

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UFC APEX reveals will proceed in 2025

In 2020, Dana White started using the UFC APEX to host occasions when the COVID-19 pandemic made it inconceivable to placed on fights for a public viewers.

The pandemic is effectively and really over. Nonetheless, MMA’s premier promotion continues to do playing cards at their Las Vegas base, which might solely cater to a really small group of followers.

UFC Vice President of Worldwide and Content material, Dave Shaw, lately revealed the company will branch out in 2025, however won’t cast off APEX reveals totally.

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“There’ll be an elevated variety of occasions exterior of the Apex relative to this 12 months as we get into the 2025 schedule,” Shaw stated at UFC Edmonton.

“It’s powerful for us to anticipate what two or three years down the road goes to appear like. But it surely makes a variety of sense for lots of causes.

“There’s a variety of fighters in Las Vegas, it’s simple for us operationally, it’s clearly easy from a price range perspective. The rigor and stress of being on the highway, you’re week in week out, it’s powerful. So, having house video games, and being within the Apex, the place you may simply activate the lights and lock the door, it makes a variety of sense for us.

“So, will we ever get again to pre-Covid of no Apex? I don’t assume so. However I believe we’re going to search out the proper stability for us.”

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