UFC NEWS | UFC on FOX 2 | Bedford vs. Gagnon Scratched, Beltran vs. Johnson Promoted To FUEL TV Card
A last minute change has been made to this weekend’s UFC on FOX 2 card.
Johnny Bedford was originally scheduled to face off with Mitch Gagnon on Saturdays preliminary card scheduled for a FUEL TV broadcast. However for undisclosed reasons, Gagnon was unable to enter the U.S. to work and the bout has subsequently been cancelled.
With the open space on the FUEL TV prelims, Joey Beltran vs. Lavar Johnson has been promoted from the facebook.com streaming prelims to the televised broadcast.
With Beltran and Johnson promoted to the televised portion of the preliminary card on FUEL TV it leaves just a single bout available on facebook.com.
UFC on FOX 2 is set to take place on Saturday, January 27 from The United Center. In the main event, Phil Davis will square off with Rashad Evans for the number one contender seat in the UFC’s light-heavyweight division ruled over by Jon Jones. The co-feature of the evening is a middleweight number one contender bout between Michael Bisping and Chael Sonnen. The televised main card is available for free on FOX and the preliminary portion is set for FUEL.
No word on whether or not Bedford vs. Gagnon is set to go down at a later date or if the bout has been scrapped entirely.
According to UFC officials Bedford will still get paid his contractual wage.
With the changes the latest UFC on FOX 2 card breaks down as follows:
MAIN CARD: (FOX)
Phil Davis vs. Rashad Evans
Michael Bisping vs. Chael Sonnen
Demian Maia vs. Chris Weidman
PRELIMINARY CARD: (FUEL TV)
Evan Dunham vs. Nik Lentz
Michael Johnson vs. Shane Roller
Jon Olav Einemo vs. Mike Russow
George Roop vs. Cub Swanson
Charles Oliveira vs. Eric Wisely
Joey Beltran vs. Lavar Johnson
PRELIMINARY CARD: (Facebook)
Chris Camozzi vs. Dustin Jacoby
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Seems to me that going from facebook to FUEL TV is a down grade. How many people actually have FUEL. NOT me. FUEL BLOWS
I am going to miss a bunch of fights and I am pissed. Comcast told me they don’t even know of the channal. BS. BS. BS.
Seriously.. nobody knows wtf fuel tv is. they prolly blew dana all day just so they can get a deal with ufc so their ratings increase.
lol whats goin on with this site right now?!
There are too many idiots running rampant in the mma news section.
I clicked this link thinkin, the ****?!?! lolll we need a new blogger or wtv… with that said, I agree… no one ****ing even has fuel tv… is the ufc stupid?!
Direct Tv has it. I had it with Atlantic Broadband also. Plenty of people have heard of it. Comcast are a bunch of assholes!
direct TV has it in HD