Just as quickly as it was made official, a UFC 108 main event of former UFC and Pride Champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and young heavyweight Cain Velasquez is now off. From MMAJunkie.com:
“[Nogueira] got staph infection, bad, to the point now it's in his bloodstream, and he's probably going to have to be hospitalized and intravenously given the antibiotics,” White said.
UFC 108, previously titled “Nogueira vs. Velasquez,” is scheduled for Jan. 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
White said the recent string of bad luck for the company, which has included injuries to several of the UFC's most prominent fighters, is the worst he's seen in his time at the helm of the promotion.
“It's crazy,” White said. “In nine years of being in this business, we haven't had this many injuries in one (full) year.”
