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Felipe Arantes ill, fight with Luke Sanders pulled from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 116 in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH – The UFC’s return to Pittsburgh on Saturday has lost a fight just two days before the event.
A bantamweight bout between Brazil’s Felipe Arantes (18-8-1 MMA, 5-4-1 UFC) and Luke Sanders (11-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) has been removed from UFC Fight night 116, taking the card down to 10 fights, after Arantes fell ill.
A promotion official confirmed the news to MMAjunkie tonight in Pittsburgh.
UFC Fight Night 116 takes place Saturday at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, and it airs on FS1. The Arantes-Sanders fight was set for the four-fight FS1 prelims, but now the opening lightweight fight between Gilbert Burns (11-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Jason Saggo (12-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) will move to that portion of the card from its original home on UFC Fight Pass, leaving the promotion’s online streaming service without any bouts for the event.
Luke Sanders
Sanders was hoping to get back on track following the first loss of his professional career, which came in March when he was submitted by Iuri Alcantara at UFC 209. Prior to that, he had won the first 11 fights of his career, which included winning the RFA bantamweight title, as well as his promotional debut with a bonus-winning submissino of Maximo Blanco in January 2016.
Arantes needed to get back in the win column, as well, after a split-decision loss to Erik Perez this past November at UFC Fight Night 98 in Mexico City. That snapped a two-fight streak of armbar submissions over Jerrod Sanders and Yves Jabouin, the latter of which won him his first UFC bonus. Arantes had not yet fought in 2017, and has fought just five times in the past four years.
With the cancellation, the UFC Fight Night 116 lineup now includes:
MAIN CARD (FS1, 10 p.m. ET)
- Luke Rockhold vs. David Branch
- Thiago Alves vs. Mike Perry
- Hector Lombard vs. Anthony Smith
- Gregor Gillespie vs. Jason Gonzalez
- Sergio Moraes vs. Kamaru Usman
- Zu Anyanwu vs. Justin Ledet
PRELIMINARY CARD (FS1, 8 p.m. ET)
- Tony Martin vs. Olivier Aubin-Mercier
- Anthony Hamilton vs. Daniel Spitz
- Uriah Hall vs. Krzysztof Jotko
- Gilbert Burns vs. Jason Saggo
For more on UFC Fight Night 116, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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