Another day, another injury added to UFC 149.
A day after welterweight striker Siyar Bahadurzada was forced to pull out of the July 21 card at Calgary’s Scotiabank Saddledome, welterweight Claude Patrick will also be off the card.
Another injury to the #UFC 149 card as WW Claude Patrick is out and Brian Ebersole is in, vs James Head. Bout has been added to main card.
— Joe Ferraro (@ShowdownJoe) July 3, 2012
Brian Ebersole will replace Patrick against James Head and the bout has been added to the main card.
American Matthew Riddle will step in for Bahadurzada against Canadian Chris (The Menace) Clements.
Other fighters forced to drop off the card include featherweight champion Jose Aldo, heavyweight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, light-heavyweight Thiago Silva, middleweight Michael Bisping, welterweights Thiago Alves and Yoshihiro Akiyama, featherweight George Roop, and bantamweight Bibano Fernandes.
–With files from The Canadian Press
