Injury-prone lightweight Thiago Tavares will no longer compete on the UFC 114 under card. He was to meet Melvin Guillard in a 155 lbs. match but has suffered another injury to his elbow.
Tavares has had little success in the Octagon as of late with only winning one out of his past four bouts and coming to a draw with Nik Lentz in his most recent outing.
No replacement for Guillard has been announced at this time.

Thiago Tavares (18-3-1)

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Draw (submission) - Nik Lentz
Win (submission) - Manvel Gamburyan
Loss (decision) …

CHICAGO (April 12, 2010) - Tyler Stinson, the 24-year-old winner of Bellator Fighting Championships’ Kansas City tryout has been added to Bellator’s eight-man welterweight tournament, replacing Sean Pierson, who was forced to withdraw because of a serious knee injury suffered in training.
Stinson (16-5) will face knockout artist Dan “The Handler” Hornbuckle (19-2) in a first round bout at Bellator 15 at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn., on April 22.
“I feel really badly for Sean. He’s a great guy and this was a tremendous opportunity for him that he was …

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 …