Former UFC middleweight champ Rich “Ace” Franklin tells Sportsnet.ca that he has a hernia which will be taken care of before it becomes a larger issue.
“I’m taking some time off,” he said. “I have hernia surgery scheduled next week. I have a slight tear in my upper stomach. I need to get it taken care of. Once I do that, then I’ll get back to a normal training regimen.”
The injury is the type that can progress to something much worse, so Frankilin is looking to fix it as soon as …

The injuries just do…not…stop coming for the cursed UFC 108 fight card. The latest victim of the dark cloud hanging over this show is Sean Sherk, who was stepping in as a replacement against Jim Miller. Now that he will mend his own body, former UFC fighter Duane “Bang” Ludwig has been tapped as the new opponent.
Ludwig holds the unofficial “quickest knockout” record in the organization (over Jonathan Goulet) and is coming off a TKO victory over Ryan Roberts at Ring of Fire this month. Miller is 4-1 since entering …

Dustin Hazelett is likely a happy man right now, a change from mere weeks ago. His previously scheduled bout with Karo Parisyan was canceled after Parisyan flaked before the weigh-ins. The fight would have been “McLovin’s” return to action after a year of rehabbing a knee ligament injury/surgery. In the end, Karo was banned from the organization (as his laundry list of excuses and drug problems mounted) and Dustin was paid his show/win money by Dana White and Co. but all the promising welterweight truly wanted was a return to …

Though we haven’t yet officially said it, we’ll say it now. UFC 108 is unfortunately cursed through and through and just cannot shake its perpetual misfortune.
Yet another blow to the already damaged end-of-year fight card has been suffered. Co-main event fighter Carlos Condit will be unable to meet fellow welterweight Paul “Semtex” Daley as he is reported as injured (hand).
Having gone through a slew of rearrangements to make up for injuries to originally scheduled fighters, 108 was in need of this particular fight to support the main event of Rashad …

UFC Heavyweight slugger Todd Duffee burst onto the scene with a record-breaking* knockout of Tim Hague at UFC 102 but has been force to withdraw from his second fight in the Octagon due to injury.
Duffee was scheduled to fight knockout artist Paul Buentello at UFC 107: “Penn vs. Sanchez” later this year and has been training in his new home of Las Vegas. Instead, Buentello will now possibly face towering Stefan Struve. With Struve having an excellent ground game and Buentello always looking to keep things standing, it would prove …