Lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos has withdrawn from next week’s UFC 196 main event fight against Conor McGregor with a foot injury.
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Jose Aldo pulled out of McGregor’s last world title fight before being replaced by Chad Mendes who McGregor beat to win the interim belt.
The UFC is believed to be working on finding a replacement to fight McGregor on less than two weeks’ notice, but nothing has been finalised yet.
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MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani has said that the Cerrone camp would be interesting in taking up the fight.
According to multiple reports, including Brazilian news outlet Globo, dos Anjos (25-7 MMA, 14-5 UFC) has suffered a broken foot in the final days leading up to the fight with McGregor (19-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC).
McGregor’s coach John Kavanagh appeared to confirm the news by simply tweeting a sad face emoji as the news broke.
The build up to Conor McGregor’s bid to make history continues.
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The pair were due to fight on March 5 at the MGM arena in Las Vegas. Diaz has only fought twice in the last two years including a loss to dos Anjos.
