Brock Lesnar comments on being a part of the card at UFC 200.
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Cormier, 37, was extremely upset upon hearing the news that he will not have a chance to claim the undisputed UFC Light Heavyweight Championship.
White said the UFC switched the bout order, moving the women’s bantamweight title fight between champion Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes to main event status.
The bout will be a non-title, three-round light-heavyweight fight.
Silva replaces Jon Jones, who was removed from the event Wednesday night after a potential failed out-of-competition drug test administered June 16 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
The announcement of Silva’s addition to Saturday night’s card came just as UFC Fight Night was ending at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Thursday night, and “Spider” made an appearance in the media center mere minutes after his involvement was revealed.
Jones vs. Cormier II is no more and, in its place, we’ve got a bout that nobody was expecting as former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva agreed to step up on 48 hours’ notice to meet Cormier at UFC 200.
UFC President Dana White announced on SportsCenter that Silva will keep Cormier on the card after stepping up on two days notice.
“I haven’t trained in a few months, but I think I’m in good condition to go in there and put on a good fight”, a smiling Silva said through a translator. It’s an interesting turn of events, mainly because he’s formed a strong bond with “Bones” over the years.
White said he was thrilled that the 41-year-old Silva was able to get through a week’s worth of medicals in one day, especially considering he is coming off a recent gall bladder surgery.
Since his loss to Michael Bisping in February, Silva has not fought ever since.
Daniel Cormier still will fight at UFC 200, and now he’s facing arguably the greatest fighter of all time.
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Jones (22-1) briefly left the stage at his news conference after being overcome with emotion. “I’ll confirm. Will you give him the fight?” There were reports from Fox Sports stating that it isn’t farfetched to assume that Jon could have been the victim of a tained supplement while he was on training camp. I know some good will come from this, but right now its hard to see it.. If they agreed to three rounds, would Silva really take the fight?
