UFC 85: James Irvin Out, Luiz Cane In Against Rashad Evans
- By: Kris Karkoski | May 20, 2008
From the official announcement:
A broken foot has forced light heavyweight James Irvin to withdraw from his UFC 85 showdown with Rashad Evans at London’s O2 Arena. Stepping up to replace ‘The Sandman’ against Evans is Brazil’s Luiz Cane, who was originally scheduled to face Jason Lambert on the June 7th card.
Here’s an updated card for the June 7th event that has gone through a series of changes in recent weeks:
Main Card
- Matt Hughes vs. Thiago Alves
- Michael Bisping vs. Jason Day
- Marcus Davis vs. Mike Swick
- Rashad Evans vs. Luiz Cane
- Fabricio Werdum vs. Brandon Vera
Preliminary Bouts
- Jorge Rivera vs. Martin Kampmann
- Nate Marquardt vs. Thales Leites
- Matt Wiman vs. Thiago Tavares
- Roan Carneiro vs. Ryo Chonan
- Jason Lambert vs. TBA
- Antoni Hardonk vs. Neil Wain
- Paul Taylor vs. Jess Liaudin
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This card is snake bit.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
gay card, i wouldnt pay a dime.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Damn, I was looking forward to seeing Irvin give us another KO. They should move the Rashad fight to the undercard, replacing it with Rivera vs. Kampmann.
Hell, just about any of the undercard fights look more appealing than Evans vs. Cane.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Poor Rashad….he went from trying to prove himself against Chucky to someone tryin to prove himself in Irvin, to a dude named Luiz Cane.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Hey Kris, do you still have that comment tracker?
May 20th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
FixXeR - Which one? The one where it displayed the latest comments on all of MMAFrenzy.com or the one with the top commenters of the month? I’m planning on bringing them back with an upcoming redesign but let me know so I have an idea which one you like best.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
They should have bumped Thiago Silva up from the bout with Mendes and put him against Evans. That might haver made it the #2 fight on the car, and was one of the original UFC 85 bouts before Shogun got injured and Evans replaced him to fight Chuck. Dumb move by Joe Silva.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:54 am
I liked the Commenter of the month thing. That was pretty cool….I think it also made people comment more because it was kind of a compitition haha.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:03 am
Thanks, will definitely put it back in and will maybe post it on the main site as well.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:05 pm