DW: Cantwell might not ever fight again
Steve Cantwell, just days before the event, was the latest fighter to fall victim to what has quickly become known…
Steve Cantwell, just days before the event, was the latest fighter to fall victim to what has quickly become known as the UFC 108 curse.
His scheduled opponent, Vladimir Matyushenko, told MMAWeekly.com on Tuesday that Cantwell had withdrawn from the event for undisclosed reasons. That typically means some sort of training injury or illness, someone steps up to fill in, and the debilitated fighter heals and moves on to another fight card down the road.
In this case, the fight was scrapped, due to the short notice. But that’s not the worst of the news.
Just like 97 other fights in the last couple of months that one fell apart. Cantwell has some medical problems; he might not ever fight again, were the unfortunate words of UFC president Dana White at Wednesday’s UFC 108 press conference.
That’s all the detail afforded at this point. Several attempts to contact Cantwell’s camp to discover the nature of his medical issues have been unsuccessful.
