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With Siyar Bahadurzada out at UFC 149, Chris Clements now meets Matt Riddle

Siyar Bahadurzada, who originally replaced an injured Yoshihiro Akiyama, is the latest scratch from July's UFC 149 event.

UFC officials today announced Bahadurzada has been forced to withdraw from the event due to injury, and Matt Riddle (6-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) now steps in to face Chris Clements (11-4 MMA, 1-0 UFC).

Clements was also a replacement fighter, moving into a slot originally reserved for Thiago Alves.

UFC 149 takes place July 21 at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Main-card fights air on pay-per-view while preliminary-card fights air on FX and stream on Facebook.

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)

Urijah Faber vs. Renan Barao (for interim bantamweight title)
Tim Boetsch vs. Hector Lombard
Shawn Jordan vs. Cheick Kongo
James Head vs. Claude Patrick
Chris Clements vs. Matt Riddle

PRELIMINARY CARD (FX)

Court McGee vs. Nick Ring
Roland Delorme vs. Francisco Rivera
Ryan Jimmo vs. Anthony Perosh
Bryan Caraway vs. Mitch Gagnon
Antonio Carvalho vs. Daniel Pineda
Mitch Clarke vs. Anton Kuivanen

With Siyar Bahadurzada out at UFC 149, Chris Clements now meets Matt Riddle | MMAjunkie.com

[Sakara=Excitement]

Alright this is just getting a little bit out of hand now.

[Cat--Smasher]

I think Joe Silva might need a holiday soon.

[Pasha K]

Call me "UFC hater" all you want but this card is horrible for being a PPV.

People bashed UFC 147 saying that it was a horrible card on paper, and however even UFC 147 was better than this.

[disposableassassin]

Originally Posted by Pasha K

Call me "UFC hater" all you want but this card is horrible for being a PPV.

People bashed UFC 147 saying that it was a horrible card on paper, and however even UFC 147 was better than this.

UFC 147 was the weakest UFC card I've ever seen on paper. It was like an m-1 card where I only knew a few fighters and everyone else had long strange foriegn names. It ended up being pretty damn good though. This card looks kinda weak but I know pretty much everybody. I think it will still be a pretty good ppv.


Oh yeah and your a UFC hater.

[Pasha K]

UFC 147 was kinda a PPV for Brazilian people, that is why almost everyone there were Brazilian fighters, and most of them from the TUF season.

However here it is supposed to be a good big PPV, and we have Clements vs Riddle and James Head vs Patrick in the main event??
Kongo vs Jordan? 2 guys that are arguably in the Top 15.
Boestch vs Lombard and the main event are the only 2 good fights in paper. And in the case of Lombard is only because it will be interesting to see if indeed he is so good.

The UFC on Fox 4 card is way much better and it is for free!!! How is that free cards are much better than PPVs??

[MMA4EVERRR]

Originally Posted by Pasha K

The UFC on Fox 4 card is way much better and it is for free!!! How is that free cards are much better than PPVs??

UFC 148, 149, n Fox 4 have all been altered due to injuries...

You're right...Fox 4 is way better and I'm sure the UFC would have loved to turn that event into a PPV and 149 into the Fox card but, at this point, making that change would really cheat those who dont wanna pay for the 149 card and enjoy the great matches of the Fox for free.

If you're a fan of MMA, you wouldn't care too much how weak the card is...just watch it no matter who is fighting and enjoy

[Pasha K]

If you're a fan of MMA, you wouldn't care too much how weak the card is...just watch it no matter who is fighting and enjoy

That is a valid point but the thing is that you want to get hyped for a card. You want to wake up on saturday and being excited because you know that in some hours you will watch a very good event. Unfortunately for UFC 149 it is impossible to get hyped.

That is why I insist that Pride was so awesome, only there you could had people like Arona, Overeem, Shogun, Wandy, Belfort, Sakuraba, Rampage, Hendo, Lil Nog, Vovchanchyn in one card.
In UFC you have 4 of those kind of fighters in one card and it is considered an "awesome card"

[disposableassassin]

Originally Posted by Pasha K

That is a valid point but the thing is that you want to get hyped for a card. You want to wake up on saturday and being excited because you know that in some hours you will watch a very good event. Unfortunately for UFC 149 it is impossible to get hyped.

That is why I insist that Pride was so awesome, only there you could had people like Arona, Overeem, Shogun, Wandy, Belfort, Sakuraba, Rampage, Hendo, Lil Nog, Vovchanchyn in one card.
In UFC you have 4 of those kind of fighters in one card and it is considered an "awesome card"

There was only like three years pride even put on ten events annually if I remember correctly. Most years I believe it was six or less. If I am correct that is a pretty solid explanation for why they had more star power per card. The UFC does what around 40 Events a year now?

[Pasha K]

Personally I would prefer to watch only one UFC event per month but a really amazing event rather than watching 40 events per year and most of them being so-so.