Paul Daley Replaces Injured Mike Swick Against Martin Kampmann at UFC 103
UFC newcomer Paul Daley, who had been scheduled to make his Octagon debut against Brian Foster on the UFC 103 preliminary card, will instead replace an injured Mike Swick and take on Martin Kampmann in a welterweight matchup on the pay-per-view main card of the September 19 event in Dallas, Texas.
Daley and UFC UK President Marshall Zelaznik confirmed the injury and replacement on Friday with The Sun.
“I am out of UFC 103. It sucks and I am sorry guys,” wrote Swick on Twitter. “I got foot swept while sparring this week and lost my legs. Landed on back of my head and neck and suffered a pretty bad concussion.”
The winner of the Swick-Kampmann matchup had been slated to be the next opponent for welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre, though Kampmann could still earn a title shot with an impressive victory over Daley.
Daley (21-8-2), who trains out of Team Rough House in his hometown of Nottingham, England, is a veteran of Cage Rage, Strikeforce, and EliteXC and has won 9 of his past 11 fights, including recent back-to-back victories. The only losses for “Semtex” since 2006 were defeats to notables Jake Shields and Nick Thompson, while he also picked up notable wins over the likes of Duane Ludwig, Sam Morgan, and John Alessio.
Kampmann (15-2) has won 6 of his 7 UFC fights, including 2-straight at welterweight over Carlos Condit and Alexandre Barros following a loss to middleweight contender Nate Marquardt last September in his final fight at 185-pounds.
It is not yet known whether the UFC will secure a replacement to fight Foster at UFC 103, or whether he’ll instead make him promotional debut on another upcoming card.
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for the latest UFC 103 news and UFC 103 rumors.
Pictured: Paul Daley
Tags: Martin Kampmann, Mike Swick, Paul Daley
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kampmann vs gsp!!!…yes its gonna happen!
just kidding to bad for swick huge missed oppurtunity …i bet he feels like crap….but kampmann should take this one and then take his title shot against gsp
I agree. Kampmann takes this one on the ground and then fights GSP. I dont see any way Kampmann can beat GSP though. He doesnt have power in his strikes and a quick KO would be his only shot IMO. The UFC needs to start signing some fighters from other orgs to bring in some more talent for GSP and Silva, they are cleaning out their divisions and the UFC cant built contenders fast enough.
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Total crap….damn you swick lol
Wow this is to bad for Swick.. he asked for a chance at the title , and here it goes on a injury.. so what happens to Kampmann ,does he get a title shot if he wins??
also forgot to say this for fr, yet another reason to hate josh koscheck
…i heard kos, hit him with a leg sweep and swick landed bad on his neck
so daley gets to replace him? why not fitch or alves, winner gets the title shot like swick-kampmann were supposed to?
do you think kos hit swick with a brick or something? jealously a factor in that one?
Because both Alves and Fitch have recently lost to GSP.
I was really looking forward to the Swick Kampmann fight but this should be a good pretty exciting fight. Kampmann has that technicl style while Daley is a wrecking ball. Great fight here.
Dam this is disappointing news. Although GSP would easily beat either of Swick or Kampmann I would have much rather seen this bout instead of Daley/Kampmann. Also how the he!! does Daley get such a big name in his debut? I mean these guys are 1 fight away from a title shot.
POOR Swick he really has deserved his shot I believed and now he has to wait until he heals very unfortunate.
Kampmann via Anaconda choke.
This is a big opportunity for Paul Daley who was originaly in the pre-lims i think. The dude has ko power but i think he’ll get outclassed by Kampmann on the ground. Kampmann is too good and has fought really good fighters so not to underestimate Daley, it’s just that for his first fight in the UFC he’s facing possibly the top contender for the WW title and i don’t like Daley’s chances too much. Sure he can “catch” Kampmann, but i doubt that wiil happen, IMO this is a too big of an opponent for Daley and Kampmann is better than ever and more foucused.
I think that they will problably make GSP-Kampmann now that there will be no clear number 1 contender, it only makes sense because GSP has to fight someone right? Or when Kampmann beats Daley he’ll get his shot anyway, but clearly now this puts Swick on spot behind Kampmann for a title shot which could possibly set him up with one of his teammates for his next fight, but non the less opens the door for a lot of match-uos for Swick after he heals up.
imo it will most likely work out to be goog or the same for Swick.he will fight Kampman for the title or after gsp beats Kampman!
I think that the UFC should make St. Pierre vs Kampmann, it makes sense and both guys are popular enough to hype up the fight.
What if Paul Daley manages to beat Swick via luck. That would completely mess up the WW top Contender status for Kampmann and Swick is injured so who will fight GSP?, certainly not Daley. So it makes sense to have GSP face Kampmann who is more than a worthy opponent for the title even though GSP will beat him down anyway. Whatever does actually happen, i hope that Kampmann can put away Daley and fight for the title against GSP because if Daley gets the upset who knows who will get the next shot, maybe they’ll give Fitch a rematch so he can get destroyed again? OR maybe we’ll be able to see Penn-GSP 3 assuming he beats Sanchez OR Silva-GSP???
GSP is on vacation til 2010 sooo there is that
Silva wants to return sometime in 2010 too so maybe that could be a possibility, but i don’t think that UFC is interested in that fight anymore since Dana said that “after watching Anderson and Forrest,GSP is too small for Anderson”. Just a thought though.
i think that looking at the overall picture this might motivate BJ a bit more, because if GSP doesn’t have an opponent assuming that Kampmann loses to Daley and Swick doesn’t heal on time, if BJ does get passed Sanchez then he might ask for GSP again which could actually be built up pretty nice in a lot of ways and i know or hope that GSP would want to prove that the 2nd fight was all him not the “grease gate” stuff so maybe i’m just bored here at my desk waiting till 5pm to get the he11 out of here or maybe i am actually on to something here but i feel that this whole Swick not being able to fight Kampmann has opened up a lot of doors for a lot of fighters IMO.
* i meant Kampmann not Swick(first sentence of my post)
i dont know why you guys are all counting out daley. although he is an overwhelming underdog its going to be a good fight. He’s a real strong kid and pretty well rounded. He has the disadvantage on the ground but he has the ability to end it in the first round. In the fight with condit it shows what you have to do to beat kampmann.
either 1st round ko for daley or 3rd sub guillotine for the hitman.
yoyoma,
i’m not counting out Daley completely because he does have some experience and some ko power BUT, when he fought Jake Shields who is not as bit or strong as Kampmann, he got submnitted, Kampmann is a beast on the ground and plain and simple if you take the fact that he is going to be fighting the probable #1 Contender at 170, and the fact that Kampmann has and awesome chin and took bombs from Mcfedries and still survived to get the sub AND this is Daleys first fight in the big show AND he;s facing someone at Kampmann’s level, if you add all that up it’s a no brainer to me that Daley will be overwhelmed by the Hit Man.
2ND ROUND SUB, KAMP OVER DALEY IS MY BET. GOTTA PUT ON A GOOD SHOW FOR AT LEAST 1 1/2 ROUNDS
whats with all the injuries, i was looking forward to swick kicking
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yeah i just got abit pi$$ed off cos i dont rate kampmann that highly, no way does he even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentance as gsp, gsp would take him out easy just like swick would.
the only thing that needs to be said is GARBAGE… just when you think this card can’t get any worse.. i hope paul daley pulls an upset
get any worse???…this is a spectacular card!…man this is why i stick to the forums mostly lately most of the people who post on the headlines whine to much
i hope is a good show, i pain GOOD money to be as close as possible to all the carnage !
If this makes since…
Give the title shot to Kampann.
Swick face winner of fitch/alves.
If swick wins he gets the title shot.
If fitch wins both give him the title shot.
If Alves wins give him either the loser of GSP/Kampmann, or another hot conteder at the time before he gets a shot.
I know GSP was injured in his last fight but i want to see the belts on the line more often.
Sempeckx2,
I like that you too would like to see swick fight fitch but if i’m not mistakened, alves is fighting paulo silva and fitch is fighting ricardo almeida.
But i see where you’re going with this. Swick’s misfortune will cost him the one fight for a shot and will likely have to win twice to get a shot @ the title. I say is kampann beats daley then give him a shot but if daley wins, then who knows dude…i can’t pick a #1 guy if kampann loses.
Dammit! GSP would have beaten all three aka fighters!
*paulo thiago my bad
IF PAUL WINS THIS I DON’T SEE HIM GETTING THE SHOT AT GSP… AND GSP/KAMP WILL BE A ONE SIDED FIGHT LIKE FITCH WAS… I DON’T SEE IT BEING A TEST FOR GSP…
i think kampmann will put up a better fight than anyone else has….he comes from xtreme couture,has a great chin, great standup, great ground game, great wrestling…he could really put up a good fight
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE SAID ABOUT FITCH KOS AND ALVES… IM NOT DISAGREEING WITH YOU CUZ I LOVE SEEING GSP TESTED. BUT HE JUST OUT DOES “EVERYONE”
dand you swick you had this at least matrin will face GSP for sure. will this acffect this being the title shot.
LOL
typing a little “quick” there nightmare?
I am of the opinion that this fight just got a lot easier for Kampmann. Sure Daley has experience, and some punching power, but he got tooled by Jake Shields and I expect Kampmann will do the same… unless he decides to try to stand and bang with him.
dude i agree, but what if Daley ends up “shoking” Kampmann and gets the upset? What will happen? Will we see Swick take on GSP just like that? Or will we see Fitch get a rematch or even Penn-GSP 3? This fight is dangerous for the UFC and Kampmann because i he loses he goes way down the ladder AND whar if Swick isn’t ready for a shot?
You mean “shocking?”
Definitely sucks for the UFC because if Kampmann loses, they are in trouble for a no. 1 contender at WW. At least they have the excuse of GSP being injured to postpone his next fight till they can sort out a proper opponent.
hopefully Kampmann can win this fight in a big way so we can justify a title fight betwee him and GSP, but i would love to see Daley get the upset just out of curiousity of what the UFC will do with the 170’s contenders.
I do feel sorry for Swick. I guess accidents like this happen to everyone, but it’s the worst timing. Good opportunity for Kampmann. I haven’t seen him fight, but from what I’ve heard, he could be the one facing GSP.
I also pity Paul Daley. This is a big change for him and a step up in competition. He doesn’t need this for a debut. He’s a great fighter and has a good record, but he needs more experience in the UFC before he fights the likes of Kampmann. The UFC is very different to the likes of Cage Rage and EliteXC.
Sucks for swick to have to pull out with his injury and hope he comes back soon, he has some exciting fights and hopefully Kampman can win to make a fight with GSP… I think GSP is in his prime and a very smart fighter. Just a thought, and it might take a couple more wins but would Anthony Johnson give him a fight I know he has 3 wins L4 fights, his stiking is pretty good, not sure about his ground game, or would GSP put on a Ground and Pound clinic, just a crazy thought.,,,,
Maybe its just me, but I don’t see why the UFC just doesn’t reschedule the fight.
I know Kampmann is well-regarded, but beating Paul Daley should not qualify anyone for a shot at GSP, and I don’t mean that as a slight to Daley, just stating a fact.
, there doesn’t seem to be a pressing need for the 170 title to be defended, does there?
Also, with GSP taking time off to recover and work on his wrestling with Mandy Moore
Yes, its a sucktacular dissapointment that Swick got hurt, because I know Gunslinger was calling for Swick to beat Kampmann by Swick-o-tine I think, but I “may” have that wrong.
And its also grossly unfair to Kampmann to wave him off for 90 days or so, but honestly, what other option is there?
If Daley scores an upset win, does he get a title shot?
No, of course not. If Kampmann hooks a UFC newcomer in about 3 minutes, which I deem pretty likely, how does that equate to beating Swick and earning a title shot?
Its an unfair deal all around, but its the nature of the sport.
IMO the UFC is making a mistake here. They should reschedule the fight, apolgize to Kampmann, and send him one of those “undisclosed” checks for his trouble, and come back to this fight when both contenders are ready to go ba11s to the wall for 15 minutes.
Finally, its grossly unfair for the UFC to ask a new [to the UFC] fighter to shift gears from Brian Foster to Martin Kampmann, no disrespect to Foster intended.
Obviously Daley wasn’t going to deny his new employer’s first request, but chucking the man into the deep end of the 170 talent pool on his first go seems to be a disservice to all concerned.
But again, maybe thats just me…
Whats with every1 counting out daley??? he had 1 bad fight against jake shields and now every1 talks about him like hes ****, Daley is an amazing fighter, hes whooped ludwig allessio and many more, his ground game is getting better and personally i think hes the best striker in the welterweight division, if kampmann wins its by decision just like how josh tompson beat daley but daley keeps getting better and is a amazing fighter. daley by ko or kampmann by decision
I agree with the majority of the posts here about the situation.
The UFC is in a tough spot cause they’re obviously trying to buy everyone on Kampmann and Swick being the next contenders. They don’t want to put in Fitch or Alves to replace an injured in Swick cause that’s just going to leave a huge circular mess in the division if either of them beat Kampmann.
Plus that leaves a whole bunch of matches we could see in the future left out if one of them steps in and beats the “number 1 contender.”
i.e. each one of the members ATT vs Alves. lol
But yeah, I do kinda agree with kcohl on rescheduling the match but I think Dana’s probably going to work something out saying if the Hitman does win he’ll get the title shot and Swick will have to wait his turn again, sucks but thats life in the UFC.
I meant AKA not ATT sorry bout that.