Mike Swick Likely to Undergo Surgery, Not Fighting Matt Serra at April 17 UFC Event
A matchup between Mike Swick and former welterweight champ Matt Serra, first reported last night as a possibility to co-headline the UFC’s April 17 UFC Fight Night 22 event, is already off, as an arm injury suffered by Swick in his February loss to Paulo Thiago will likely require surgery that will sideline him indefinitely.
“Not fighting Serra guys. Most likely having surgery soon,” Swick today posted on Twitter. “Dr appt on Mon. to figure out how they are going to fix my arm which is most certainly only w/surgery. MRI results were pretty bad.”
Despite being issued a medical suspension that runs until August 6 for the left elbow injury, Swick was reportedly in talks to meet Serra at the event, which airs on Spike TV opposite Stikeforce’s return to CBS, but the UFC must now seek a replacement opponent for Serra or book another bout for the co-main event slot.
There are currently no matchups reported for the event, but CBS Radio’s Carmichael Dave today posted a rumor that newcomer James Toney could debut against Kimbo Slice on the card, which would be held at the Vanderbilt Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, the same city hosting Strikeforce’s event. However, Toney today said he doesn’t expect to fight until June or July.
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So not only is the UFC putting on a card the same night as Strikeforce, but looking to have it in the same city! Wonder what the gate price difference will be?
hahaha thats cold UFC, i expect the casual fan to see the option of UFC and the option of Strikeforce, they’ll probably go to the UFC haha. So Swick is out who is out there for Serra? Who would a good match up be? How is Mclovins jaw feeling these days?
Wow, same city is pretty crazy. That’s really going after Strikeforce if they do that. Even if Strikeforce moves to the following weekend, having a UFC in the city the week before can’t help ticket sales.
I’m not sure what specifically triggered this latest round of UFC shots fired against SF, but that previous relationship of mutual respect is clearly out the window if they’re going head to head in the same city…
I think that went out the window when SF signed Fedor.
i dont think the ufc are trying to compete with strikeforce theyre just trying to lower their ratings. It just shows the strength of the ufc roster as they can put on decent cards whenever they feel like it, and with strikeforce using the majority of their names in one card how can they ensure their next few cards will be remotely as interesting
Toney vs. Kimbo is not entertaining to me. I enjoy following “the evolution” of Kimbo Slice. I liked his enthusiasm on TUF as his skills improved. So why put him up against a former World Champion boxer? To see him brawl? He’ll get destroyed! Picked apart! Does Kimbo take this to the groud?? Is THAT supposed to intrigue me? I dunno…I think this has Mercer v. Timmy written all over it. Poor Kimbo.
Kimbo did fight and sub Mercer though
is kimbo not fighting mitrione at 113 anymore?
Matt Serra vs. Paulo Thiago witha headline of Wanderlei Silva vs. Akiyama ….that would be sweet.
i think that we need to see Thiago fighting in the upper echelon of title contension.. no disrespect to serra, but the loser of Alves/Fitch would make the most sense IMO.
yea your probably right but there would be too much down time for that fight to actually solidify. If Thiago is the real deal he takes out serra fast and then takes on alves/fitch mid-year
serra is not done if him and thiago fight it will be a good one. i think it would make the most sense and if thiago wins he should then fight fitch and alves winner, which i believe will be fitch
yea with GSP fighting the winner of Daley/Kos if he gets past Hardu on the same card. Man are we looking ahead or what ha :)
yes but say if Kos happens to win then he gets The Greatness while Paulo is waiting in line after already KO’ing Kos? No sense is to be made there on Kos’s case. winner of Kos/Daley fighting Thiago for #1 contendership while Alves/Fitch winner challenges makes more sense.
Plus Hardy gets the greatness after taking Swick the distance and Paulo has to keep fighting to contend after putting Swick soundly to sleep?
it seems like a never ending cycle.
yea had Thiago not lost to fitch then everybody would be making a HUGE CASE for paulo. guess its all about the current momentum
with paulo thiago 3 and 1 in the ufc why not give him the former champ and with that being a co main event this card will be awesome,i dont really care what the other main event would be.
i agree
dont like kimbo vs toney hope it doesnt happen
I think the reason Kimbo’s name is thrown in there is to simply sell to the casual fan. Dana saw what ratings he gets when Kimbo fights on a free televised show so he wants to use that to try lower SF into just being really lower league. Dana does sadly want MMA to mean UFC except maybe letting some Japanese shows continue as he knows those shows will never gain huge traction in America.
I could obviously be very wrong and this is just a HUGE coincidence ;)