Michael Bisping will not fight
Wanderlei Silva in Manchester, England in the main event of UFC 105 as previously rumored.
As rumor has it, Wand recently underwent facial surgery to remove scar tissue which will keep him out the cage for months to come, however I’ve yet to see anyone actually confirm this besides Bisping who wrote about it on a blog post on his site.
Quick update on the potential Wanderlei Silva fight. Unfortunately thats not gonna happen. He’s undergone facial surgery, so obviously won’t be fighting in the near future. Rumours are he’s actually out for the rest of the year. So as of right now, Im still unaware of who I’ll be facing at UFC 105. Obviously as stated before, when I know, you know.
While they didn’t confirm the surgery, MMA Junkie did confirm that the UFC is currently looking for a suitable replacement fighter to headline the card with Bisping, so it definitely looks like Wand is out.
We shouldn’t be too surprised though. Wand said about a month ago he wasn’t planning on fighting again until February.
Who should Bisping fight? I’m thinking Akiyama. What do you think?
Update: Fightlinker has pictures up of Wand’s “new face.” The first one has been floating around the internet for days, but everyone has been debating whether it’s actually him, an impostor, or just fake. I haven’t seen the other two before though, so unless someone is going to great lengths to fool everyone, it looks like Wand had the surgery. I’ll update if confirmation comes in.
Update 2: MMA Mania has confirmed with Wanderlei’s camp that he did in fact undergo facial surgery.
MMAmania.com (www.mmamania.com) has been able to confirm with sources inside the Wanderlei Silva camp that “The Axe Murderer” has recently undergone a medical procedure.
Silva is expected to make an announcement on his official website (www.wandfightteam.com) in the next few days to further discuss the procedure and reveal a timetable for his Octagon return.
Update 3: The reports of Wand undergoing some sort of “medical procedure” may be true, but at least one of the pictures were fake. Via WKR:
That definitely looks more like Wand. Not sure if the other pics are false, but this is enough for me to question if he had facial surgery or something else. Hopefully, Wand clears this up soon.
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I totally agree, Akiyama would be a great match-up to give him some added exposure against the Count…I would also like to see Kang as another possible opponent…after all, he really needs the shine more than Akiyama..either way, they should both be on this card regardless of who ends up fighting Bisping
Kang would be a good fight too. I’d probably take Kang and Akiyama over Bisping actually. I don’t know that the UFC would put Kang in a main event though. So far he’s lost on the main card and won a prelim. They probably want to promote him a little more before they put him in as a headliner.
Wands face is crazy!?! If those are real pics then wow! He went from the axe murderer to Chuck liddel’s dancing partner on dancing with the stars!
Ya I know, thats why I’m having a hard time believing it, plus the rumor originated on a site that’s about as reliable as one of those black and white rags in the grocery store that says Obama is an alien. I’ve seen people do some crazy things with photoshop so I’m remaining skeptical unless it gets confirmed.
Looks like he did it. That is crazy. It’s believed he did this to remove scar tissue, but Nick Diaz and Marcus Davis did the same thing and they don’t look any different. Did his doctor screw up???
WOW! Computers can do some crazy stuff! Well I guess people too!
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