If the COVID pandemic cemented one long-term change for the UFC it’s the expectation that, come the week of a card, fights are going to get cancelled. The world’s largest MMA promotion went from placing collectively 12-13 bouts per-event on the common to going for 13-15 each week, simply hoping that they nonetheless had at the least 10 bookings by the point Bruce Buffer stepped into the Octagon.
That form of ahead pondering has paid off as soon as once more this week in San Antonio, the place the UFC hit Texas on Monday with 13 bouts, and can see simply 22 fighters make it to the cage on Saturday (offered, after all, that we don’t see any extra late cancellations). This information comes by way of promotion officers who notified the media {that a} light-weight bout between Manuel Torres and Trey Ogden had been pulled from the occasion as a consequence of “medical points” within the Torres camp.
Carlos Contreras Legaspi of ESPN Deportes experiences that the fighter was hospitalized after affected by extreme abdomen ache throughout his weight minimize.
Replace on Manuel Torres: He’s again on the lodge resting, he was hospitalized round 3 AM as a consequence of extreme abdomen ache. For the time being it’s unclear if the UFC will attempt to reschedule the struggle vs. Trey Ogden or they are going to transfer on a diferent path for each. #UFCSanAntonio
— Carlos Contreras Legaspi (@CCLegaspi) March 24, 2023
The most recent cancellation arrives on the heels of experiences that Tamires Vidal had been pressured from her struggle in opposition to Hailey Cowan as nicely, within the prelim opener—beneath the equally nebulous reason behind “undisclosed medical points.”
Because of these scratches, the UFC has pushed their begin time for the Sandhagen vs. Vera Battle Night time occasion again half-hour. Prelims will now start at 4:30 pm Japanese/1:30 pm Pacific on ESPN & ESPN+. A flyweight reserving between Victor Altamirano and Vinicius Salvador will now function the cardboard’s opening struggle.
