Lesnar out of UFC 106 Carwin Fight Moved to 2010
The fight was just under one month away. On November 21st at UFC 106 Shane Carwin was supposed to take on Brock Lesnar for the UFC Heavyweight Championship. Carwin will not get his shot at the champion until 2010 due to an illness that has sidelined Lesnar for over three weeks now as reported by Yahoo! Sports.
“He said he’s never been this sick in his life,” White said. “He said it’s been going on for a long time and he just hasn’t been able to shake it.”
As a result of the fight being postponed the UFC announced that they will move what was the co-main event between Forrest Griffin and Tito Ortiz to the main event spot. Problem is for the UFC they can now expect with the news that PPV buys will drop significantly. Lesnar is a big draw and would of brought in over 1.5 million buys for UFC 106 but it seems Zuffa will have to settle for something less than 750K now.
Here is the UFC 106 card as it now stands, stars represent fights that are not yet official:
Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin
Karo Parisyan vs. Dustin Hazelett
Amir Sadollah vs. Phil Baroni
Ben Saunders vs. Marcus Davis
Kendall Grove vs. Jake Rosholt
George Sotiropoulos vs. Jason Dent
Luiz Cane vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira*
Brian Foster vs. Brock Larson *
Fabricio Camoes vs. Caol Uno*
Paulo Thiago vs. Jacob Volkmann*
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