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UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit is an upcoming mixed martial arts pay-per-view event to be held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 17, 2012 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Official fight card
Main Card
Welterweight Canada Georges St-Pierre (c) vs. United States Carlos Condit (ic) Welterweight Championship unification bout
Welterweight Denmark Martin Kampmann vs. United States Johny Hendricks Welterweight Championship title eliminator bout
Middleweight France Francis Carmont vs. United States Tom Lawlor
Featherweight Canada Mark Hominick vs. United States Pablo Garza
Lightweight Canada Mark Bocek vs. Brazil Rafael dos Anjos
Middleweight Canada Nick Ring vs. Cyprus Costa Philippou cancelled
Preliminary Card (FX)
Middleweight Canada Patrick Côté vs. Italy Alessio Sakara
Light Heavyweight France Cyrille Diabaté vs. United States Chad Griggs
Lightweight Canada Sam Stout vs. Canada John Makdessi
Featherweight Canada Antonio Carvalho vs. Brazil Rodrigo Damm
Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Welterweight United States Matthew Riddle vs. England John Maguire
Bantamweight El Salvador Ivan Menjivar vs. Russia Azamat Gashimov
Featherweight United States Steven Siler vs. United States Darren Elkins
Background
Fabio Maldonado was briefly linked to a bout with Cyrille Diabaté at the event. However, Maldonado was pulled from the bout and is now expected to face Glover Teixeira on October 13, 2012 at UFC 153, replacing an injured Quinton Jackson. Diabaté is now slated to face Chad Griggs at the event.
Stephen Thompson was expected to face Besam Yousef at the event. However, Thompson was forced out of the bout with a knee injury, and was replaced by Matthew Riddle. Yousef was then forced out with injury, and replaced by John Maguire.
Main Event
The main event features 170-pound champion St-Pierre (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC) vs. interim champ Condit (28-5 MMA, 5-1 UFC) in the main event to unify their titles.
St-Pierre, who is recovering from knee surgery, fights for the first time since an April 2011 win over Jake Shields and will have endured almost 19 months on the shelf when he enters the cage. Meanwhile, Condit competes for the first time since earning the UFC's interim title with a February decision win over Nick Diaz.
update nov 17
oct 29 - updated fightcard & background
nov 6 - updated announced & background
nov 12 - updated fightcard & main event text
Nick Ring will not be fighting tonight on the UFC 154 card. Apparently, Ring had a high fever and doctors have not allowed him to fight. At this late stage, there will be no opponent for Constantinos Philippou. Mark Bocek and Rafael dos Anjos will fight on the PPV now that the Ring vs Philippou fight is off.
Ring had weighed in and made weight yesterday.
This news was confirmed by UFC_CA’s twitter account:
Tough luck for @Promise_RiiNG as he’s out due to illness. Speedy recovery. @MarkBocek fight moved to PPV, @AntonioPatoMMA to prelims #UFC154.
Brian Bird, Nick Ring’s coach and head of Champion’s Creed MMA, posted the following on Facebook.
Very bad news regarding Nick Ring’s fight. He has been pulled from the card by UFC doctor orders. Nick became very ill in the middle of the night. Likely from a virus that took over from a weakened immune system from cutting weight. I saw him early in the morning and it was clear he was incredibly sick. We called the UFC officials and they brought in their doctor to inspect him and after made it clear he is not OK to fight. Nick is resting in bed on IV at the moment. Nick never asked to pull out and was very concerned with letting down, his friends, fans, the UFC, and his opponent Constantinos Philippou. This really sucks but safety comes first. The only good news is his moustache still looks good.
I will keep you all updated on his progress.Source Nick Ring Out Of UFC 154