Weidman out of UFC 155 fight against Tim Boetsch with shoulder injury; Costa Phillipou steps in

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A change has been made to a potential No. 1 contender’s bout at UFC 155 as Chris Weidman has been forced off the show with an undisclosed injury.

Stepping into replace him with be his teammate Costa Philippou, who now faces Tim Boetsch at UFC 155 in December.

Sources close to the contest confirmed the new bout and injury to MMAWeekly.com on Wednesday with verbal agreements in place for the fight.

Weidman’s withdraw from the fight comes after a very tumultuous past few weeks for the New Yorker after his house was destroyed in the melee of Hurricane Sandy. The upheaval obviously didn’t help Weidman’s preparation for the fight, and now he’ll be forced to the sidelines for some time off to recover.

In his place, Weidman’s teammate Costa Philippou will get the chance to face Tim Boetsch at UFC 155 instead.

Philippou was scheduled to fight at last weekend’s UFC 154 card in Montreal, but opponent Nick Ring came down with the flu just hours before the scheduled bout and was deemed unable to perform

http://www.mmaweekly.com/chris-weidman-out-costa-philippou-steps-in-to-face-tim-boetsch-at-ufc-155



Lame.

Weidman is ducking Boetsch

FUckin WEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

samger2 wrote:

Weidman is ducking Boetsch

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but I would not be surprised if that is actually true.

Think about it:
Weidman has been saying ever since the Munoz fight that he wants to fight Silva and only Silva; nobody else.
So then Dana eventually says "You're definitely not getting Silva right now, so you're taking another fight, whether you like it or not".
So he gets penciled in to fight Boetsch, but still takes every opportunity to say that he should be fighting Silva.

So how do you avoid having to fight someone you don't want to fight, as well as the risk of losing your stature in the title hunt?
A-Ha! An injury in training that kind of isn't that bad at all but can be played-up to the point where you can pull out of the fight altogether!

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Unfortunately in the midst of getting ready for his bout, Weidman suffered a shoulder injury while drilling his wrestling with the team in Arizona.

“Chris was wrestling and it just happened, his shoulder popped,” Martin told MMAWeekly.com. “He had an MRI on Tuesday and he’s flying home to New York as we speak while we wait for the orthopedic surgeon to make a final diagnosis.

“We just felt it was bad enough that there was no way Chris could fight at UFC 155, and to be fair to the UFC and Tim Boetsch, we didn’t want to delay the inevitable so we had to make the call to pull out of the fight.”

http://www.mmaweekly.com/chris-weidman-injures-shoulder-ahead-of-ufc-155-teammates-and-sponsors-stepped-up

Brilliant!!

samger2 wrote:

Weidman is ducking Boetsch

Damn!!!! you beat me to the punch (no pun intended) he is also afraid if he wins he might have to fight Bisping too!!!! yeah thats right !!!!

So i guess if bisping beats vitor now we can pretty much call him the number one contender...right?

haha...I was joking, but what Trigger said makes perfect sense...so...I was joking, but maybe I wasn't.

I didnt cast the lines.......

All I did was point to the bait that was already there!!

I doubt HIGHLY that Weidman is turning down a fight with anyone. This is his only source of income and he and his wife aren't exactly rolling in the dough, especially after their house just got trashed.

My guess is that they are pretty devastated they will be losing this paycheck.

OK, then the Boetsch fight can still be on the table, and they can fight at a later date. But somehow I don't feel that's going to be Weidman's stance when this injury is healed. I'm guessing it's going to be more along the lines of "Well now that Silva and I both haven't fought in a little while, I should get a title shot against him for my next fight. If I don't, then he's ducking me."
Lame.

Well don't roll your eyes and call him lame until he actually does it at least, haha.

Agreed^
But that won't happen, Trigger has been dead set against Weidman ever since he found out I was a fan.

lol

FistK wrote:

Well don't roll your eyes and call him lame until he actually does it at least, haha.

Well I only say it's lame because if (when) it does happen, everyone is going to be right there saying he's 100% justified. The problem I have is that when Silva was injured or didn't want to take a fight in the immediate future, everyone said he's ducking this guy or that guy, but when Weidman has clearly expressed his opposition to fighting anybody other than Silva, then bows of a scheduled fight with somebody other that Silva, I'm supposed to just accept it without question and not even fathom the idea that he has an agenda.
What's lame is the double-standard.

And Chrom, it's not the fact that you're a fan of Weidman that makes me dislike him; you happen to be a hater of Silva, and Weidman is just the newest fad to emerge who is supposedly going to dethrown Silva that you have latched onto.
I dislike him because he has a sense of entitlement. That's all.

Trigger... my friend, you put too much stock in assumptions.

Probably, but I'm usually right about them.

I dunno, I still haven't drank the weidman cool-aid. I don't think he stands a chance agains Silva, I think the fight would be laughable at best.

samger2 wrote:

I dunno, I still haven't drank the weidman cool-aid. I don't think he stands a chance agains Silva, I think the fight would be laughable at best.

Yeah that's my whole problem with Weidman (meaning the collective Weidman, which includes the hype, the fans demanding a title shot, and the manifestation of the idea that Silva is ducking). He hasn't really done anything overly impressive to lead me to believe that he is destined to dethrown Silva. I mean, he clobbered Munoz with a well-timed elbow that Munoz ducked into, but what else has he really done to make everyone believe that he is going to present any kind of real problems for the #1 P4P, dominant, longest reigning MW champion in history who has won in every way possible while both overcoming extreme adversity and making opponents look stupid in fights?

I'm not saying the dude can't fight a lick, but come on....

samger2 wrote:

I dunno, I still haven't drank the weidman cool-aid. I don't think he stands a chance agains Silva, I think the fight would be laughable at best.

I dont think it has anything to do with drinking weidman koolaid or thinking he's the next coming, it's more about his style.

Hell there is a chance that anyone who fights Silva would be laughable, but the intriguing thing about Weidman is that he seems to possess the skillset that would give Silva problems.
Wrestles like Chael, but is stronger, has a little better standup, but devastating power and a great ground game which lets face it chael doesnt posses. Chael can control you on the ground, but he doesnt do much damage. Weidman not only has power, but also very good BJJ.

You might be right Silva can tool anybody, but imo if someone ever beats him it will be someone who has Weidman's skillset if it isnt Weidman.

Whoa....Weidman has "devastating" power? Really?!

I hope your not baseing that assesment on the elbow that Munoz ran into to practically KO himself. That was a simple matter of Munoz's face being in the right place at the right time, not a demonstration of devastating power by Weidman.