🚨 JUST IN: I’m told Movsar Evloev got
injured while training. 😶Let’s see what’s going to happen in Mitchell vs Evloev fight which
is about to be held on November 5th. 🔎— Giorgi Kokiashvili 🇬🇪 ✊ 🇺🇦 (@iHeartGeorgius1)
October 4, 2022
A thrilling battle of Ultimate Fighting Championship unbeatens will
have to wait.
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In September, the organization
scheduled Bryce
Mitchell (15-0) against Movsar
Evloev (16-0) for what turned out to be the main event of
UFC
Fight Night 214. The featherweight main attraction was only
together for about three weeks before a story broke from Setanta
Sports on Oct. 4 that Evloev suffered an injury in training.
Over a week later, the UFC’s broadcast partner of ESPN
Deportes confirmed on Friday that the injury forced Evloev out
of the match, and there is currently no replacement on the
books.
It is unclear if “Thug Nasty” will remain as the star attraction of
this fight card, as Mitchell reportedly
wants a full training camp to take on the likes of Ilia
Topuria. A rumored pairing of Topuria vs. Sodiq
Yusuff is also off the table once again due to the abbreviated
training camp for the top-ranked 145-pounders. Should he stay on
UFC Fight Night 214, Mitchell will look to earn his seventh win in
a row inside the Octagon. The Arkansas native picked up a contract
by winning the all-undefeated 27th season of “The Ultimate Fighter”
in 2018.
The promotion has not specified whether the matchup will be
preserved for a later date, or if Evloev will take on a different
foe when he returns. As the injury itself has not been disclosed,
the timetable for his comeback is yet undetermined. Like his former
adversary, Evloev had also won six straight fights in the UFC, with
an unblemished record that began in 2014. The Russian has won all
six of his UFC bouts by decision, claiming nods over the likes of
Dan
Ige, Hakeem
Dawodu and Enrique
Barzola.
UFC Fight Night 214 does not currently have an official headliner,
but the highest-billed bout on the lineup likely now comes at
strawweight between top-10 contenders Marina
Rodriguez and Amanda
Lemos. Additionally, a welterweight tilt between Neil Magny
and Daniel
Rodriguez recently shifted to this card due to a staph
infection suffered by Rodriguez.