Herring Out Of UFC 99: Heavyweight Heath Herring, who had been scheduled to fight Cain Velasquez in the co-main event at UFC 99, will not fight on the card as scheduled, FanHouse learned Tuesday.
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One option — and this is pure speculation — is that Velasquez could fight Mirko Cro Cop, who was confirmed for the UFC 99 card on Monday. Cro Cop was expected to take on Mostapha Al Turk, but a Cro Cop-Velasquez fight would be much bigger than Cro Cop-Al Turk or Herring-Velasquez.
by MMASuPreMaCy on May 19, 2009 6:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
damn I hope hes not facing Cro Cop… I want him to win at least 1 UFC fight…
by Davey S. on May 19, 2009 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He Already Does
Eddie Sanchez
=)
by MMASuPreMaCy on May 19, 2009 7:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Poor Kongo – he’s probably getting sacrificed at the altar of Carwin now.
by subo on May 20, 2009 1:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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Heath Herring is out of UFC 99 in Germany due to injury. His replacement will be named tomorrow on UFC.COM.
by MMASuPreMaCy on May 19, 2009 8:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
isn’t it more likely that valesquez’ll fight the british dude al-turk was supposed to? if there bringing crocop back, i doubt they’d risk him being a bust out of the gate
by woooburn on May 19, 2009 8:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I think Duffee is seen as a prospect, maybe not on the Carwin/Cain level but a potential top heavyweight at least. They won’t stick him in there with Cain.
Perhaps we can get the highly anticipated Velasquez vs Stojnic rematch!
by rabrown on May 19, 2009 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not British
Duffee’s American I believe
by Scott Haber on May 19, 2009 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
my bad
i just assumed, based on this line in the mania article “Todd Duffee, who fights out of the famous London Shoot gym in the United Kingdom.”
by woooburn on May 19, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Must be a typo
Duffee trains at ATT, and is American-born and bred.
by Scott Haber on May 20, 2009 1:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
once they reschedule herring...
… i wouldn’t mind seeing him fight gonzaga
by woooburn on May 19, 2009 11:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Dude...
Just saw this. Major bummer. I was thinking of betting on Herring.
I poop rainbows.
by Blackout612 on May 20, 2009 12:19 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Well, then whatever virus he got saved you some money. Not sold on Velasquez?
by subo on May 20, 2009 1:44 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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