Home » News, UFC 81

UFC 81: Heath-Drwal Dropped, Event Continues With 8 Fights

Posted by Kris Karkoski on Jan 22, 2008 at 12:00 am ET1 Comment

From UFC.com’s Thomas Gerbasi:

A knee injury has forced light heavyweight Tomasz Drwal to withdraw from his February 2nd bout with David Heath on the UFC 81 card in Las Vegas.  No replacement will be made for this fight, and UFC 81, which is headlined by the interim UFC heavyweight title fight between Tim Sylvia and Antonio Rodrigo ‘Minotauro’ Nogueira, and the UFC debut of Brock Lesnar against Frank Mir, will carry on with eight bouts.

Tags: ,

1 Comment »

  • scotchydow says:

    I am almost positive that Sylvia will FLOOR Nog (not real happy about it either) The one I am most looking forward to is the Mir/Esnar fight, just to see. I am REALLY unhappy about the price hike. Didn’t they just up the cost a couple of months ago while delivering a lesser product. Something has to happen in the UFC quick because I feel like the cards are slipping a little, the price is rising with no good reason, and the REAL fans are being punished for nothing but supporting the sport they love. WHAT THE……

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

MMAFrenzy.com reserves the right to moderate all comments.