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UFC on Fuel TV: Struve vs. Miocic is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event is expected to take place on September 29, 2012 at Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, England.


Official Fight Card

Main Card (Fuel TV)

Heavyweight Netherlands Stefan Struve vs United States Stipe Miocic
Welterweight England Dan Hardy vs. United States Amir Sadollah
Welterweight England John Hathaway vs. England John Maguire
Bantamweight England Brad Pickett vs. Haiti Yves Jabouin
Lightweight England Paul Sass vs. United States Matt Wiman
Welterweight England Che Mills vs. United States Duane Ludwig

Preliminary Card (Facebook)

Light Heavyweight United States Kyle Kingsbury vs. England Jimi Manuwa
Featherweight England Andy Ogle vs. Sweden Akira Corassani
Middleweight England Tom Watson vs. United States Brad Tavares
Catchweight (175 lb) United States DaMarques Johnson vs. Iceland Gunnar Nelson
Featherweight England Jason Young vs. United States Robbie Peralta


Background

Jörgen Kruth was expected to make his UFC debut against Fabio Maldonado at this event. However, Kruth dropped out of the fight to retire from mixed martial arts. As a result, Maldonado was pulled from the event and will now face Glover Teixeira at UFC 153.

Pascal Krauss was expected to face promotional newcomer Gunnar Nelson at the event. However, Krauss was forced out of the bout with an injury and Nelson was briefly linked to a bout with Rich Attonito in a catchweight bout to be contested at 175 lb. However, Attonito had reservations about taking the short notice bout due to the weight cut requirements. DaMarques Johnson is now slated to take on Nelson at 175 lb.


Aug 8 - change of corner for Manuwa vs Kingsbury
Aug 28 - updated fightcard & background
Sept 17 - updated fightcard
sept 26 - updated fightcard & background

Aug 8 - change of corner for Manuwa vs Kingsbury

Aug 28 - updated fightcard & background

On september 7th Jörgen Kruth dropped out of the fight against Fabio Maldonado to go into retirement.

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Fabio Maldonado (18-5 MMA, 1-2 UFC) can cancel his ticket to England. Instead, it's off to Canada.

MMAjunkie.com (http://www.mmajunkie.com) has learned that after his UFC on FX 5 opponent Jorgen Kruth (5-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) abruptly retired, Maldonado has instead been called on to fight Cyrille Diabate (18-8-1 MMA, 3-2 UFC) at UFC 154, which.

Verbal agreements are in place for the new matchup, but bout agreements have yet to be distributed. UFC officials have yet to make an announcement regarding the switch or Kruth's retirement.

UFC 154 takes place on Nov. 17 at Montreal's Bell Centre. While not officially announced, a welterweight title-unification bout between champion Georges St-Pierre and interim titleholder Carlos Condit is expected to headline the show.

The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.

Kruth signed with the UFC earlier this year to compete at UFC on FUEL TV 2 in Stockholm, but he ultimately scratched due to an injury. The Swedish striker today told Swedish outlet Expressen (as translated by Studio MMA) that his body, which has endured some 85 professional kickboxing contests

"I have been thinking for a long time," Kruth said. "However, I feel it's time now. I neither have the motivation or focus and my body doesn’t respond anymore. I’m not getting the results that I want."

Maldonado, a Brazilian fighter, likely finds himself in a must-win situation. The fighter knocked out James McSweeney in his promotional debut for his 11th straight win (and 12th knockout in 18 career victories). However, he's since suffered back-to-back decision losses to Kyle Kingsbury and Igor Pokrajac.

Meanwhile, Diabate looks for his first two-fight win streak in the octagon after earning a majority decision over Tom DeBlass (who replaced Kruth on that fight card) at UFC on FUEL TV 2. Diabate made his UFC debut in May 2010 with a win over Luiz Cane and has since alternated wins and losses over a span of five fights.

UFC light heavyweight Kyle Kingsbury in motorcycle accident, still expects to fight on Sept. 29

Ouch.

You'd think UFC fighters would learn to stop riding motorcycles after Frank Mir lost several years of his career and Jose Aldo was recently hit by a car while riding his chopper, but maybe today's picture will finally get these guys to wise up.

UFC light heavyweight Kyle Kingsbury was involved in an accident this past week and while he received some gnarly road rash, his trainer Javier Mendez (who tweeted the picture) says that "Kingsbu" is still expecting to fight at the end of the month.

Kingsbury will be taking on undefeated British 205-er Jimi Manuwa in the final bout of the UFC on FUEL TV 5 preliminary card at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, England on September 29th.

He'll likely still be wearing the visible effects of the scarring when he enters the cage on fight night.

Do you believe MMA fighters will learn their lesson from "Kingsbu?" Or does getting punched in the face create athletes who are more willing to put their bodies on the line?


UFC light heavyweight Kyle Kingsbury in motorcycle accident, still expects to fight on Sept. 29

That hurts just looking at it, ouch!

Sept 17 - updated fightcard (DaMarques Johnson in against Gunnar Nelson)

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