Cowboy vs. Lawler moved to UFC 214
“Just received word from Dana White that Cowboy Cerrone Robbie Lawler is moving from Saturday to Anaheim’s UFC 214 on July 29.”
Donald Cerrone suffered a blood infection and a much-anticipated fight with Robbie Lawler at UFC 213 was delayed.
“Let everyone know this is not an injury,” wrote Cerrone. “But a super bad infection in my blood. 7 days of IV and I’ll be back at it. Working on getting the fight rescheduled.”
UFC president Dana White believed at first that the fight would not be rescheduled to UFC 214.
He absolutely wanted to fight. The kid’s got a pulled groin; he’s got a bruise from his knee to the inside of his groin. And his other knee is blowing up; he’s got staph infection. Could he come out and fight? Probably. Should he come out and fight Robbie Lawler with a pulled groin? No, he shouldn’t. We’re going to get him healthy and remake the fight. … It won’t be on Anaheim.”
However, Cerrone has apparently bounced back faster than expected. The LA Times reputable and well-connected Lance Pugmire reports that UFC 214 got greater still.
https://twitter.com/latimespugmire/status/881558729631555584
UFC 214 is now officially insanely great – Lawler vs. Cerrone is the opening fight on the main card.
Daniel Cormier (c) vs. Jon Jones
Tyron Woodley (c) vs. Demian Maia
Cristiane Justino vs. Tonya Evinger for vacant women’s featherweight title
Jimi Manuwa vs. Volkan Oezdemir
Robbie Lawler vs. Donald Cerrone
Ricardo Lamas vs. Jason Knight
TBA vs. Andre Fili
Aljamain Sterling vs. Renan Barão (140 catchweight)
Sage Northcutt vs. John Makdessi
Kailin Curran vs. Alexandra Albu
Josh Burkman vs. Drew Dober
Dimitri Smoliakov vs. Adam Wieczorek
Eric Shelton vs. Jarred Brooks
Brian Ortega vs. Renato Moicano
