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ESPN app. Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight
Terrance
McKinney is rocketing up the division with a matchup that might
put him among the top 15 should he win. On Friday morning, Ricky Glenn
announced on the KJ MMA Show that
he would no longer be competing at
UFC Fight Night 203 against Drew Dober
(23-11, 1 NC) due to a groin injury. In his stead will be the
recently victorious Terrance
McKinney (12-3), with the news of this first coming from the
UFC itself. The two lightweights will battle it out inside the
UFC Apex in Las Vegas on March 12.
“A matchup I’ve been preparing a long time, really hard, feeling
really good, and unfortunately [I] got injured,” Glenn explained.
“I thought maybe I’d be able to work around it, but unfortunately I
gotta pull out – and this is my first time making it public,
haven’t posted anything on social media yet. Kinda gone through the
medical process and things, and [an] MRI showed a complete tear of
a tendon in my groin-leg area. So, gotta get surgery on that, and
it’s a quick recovery if I can get surgery soon, and hopefully I’ll
able to get a matchup. Late summer is the plan now, little bit of a
delay, unfortunately, but now I’m taking it day-by-day. Looking
forward to recovery and getting back to full training.”
McKinney will enter this bout having won in his last time out
against Fares Ziam
at UFC Fight Night 202, with a turnaround of two weeks between that
win and this short-notice replacement spot. As a pro, “T.Wrecks”
has never gone the distance, with all 12 of his career wins coming
by stoppage under the 11-minute mark. While unsuccessful on his
2019 jaunt on Dana White’s Contender Series, McKinney rattled
off a trio of quick knockouts to claim his place on the roster in
June 2021. From there, McKinney dazzled with a seven-second
knockout of Matt
Frevola, and he followed it up with his speedy submission of
Ziam.
Dober will be looking to get back on the winning track after
suffering defeats at the hands of Islam
Makhachev and Brad
Riddell in 2021. The loss to Makhachev put an end to a
three-fight knockout streak for the Nebraskan, who had stopped
Marco Polo
Reyes, Nasrat
Haqparast and Alexander
Hernandez to get a crack at the top-ranked Makhachev. After
losing to Makhachev, he faced Riddell and fell short by
decision.
UFC Fight Night 203 remains solid at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas with
its 14-fight lineup topped by a light heavyweight clash between
Thiago
Santos and Magomed
Ankalaev. Drawing the co-main assignment for the March 12 event
is a bantamweight battle pitting ex-title challenger Marlon
Moraes against rising star Yadong
Song. Other key matchups on the card include a featherweight
scrap between Sodiq
Yusuff and Alex
Caceres as well as a middleweight brawl when Alex
Pereira takes on Bruno
Silva.
