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OSU legend Mark Coleman out of UFC 106
An injury has forced Mark Coleman out one of his biggest career fights on one of the year’s biggest mixed-martial-arts cards.
Coleman, a former NCAA Division I national wrestling champion at Ohio State University, was slated to fight ex-UFC champ Tito Ortiz on Nov. 21 at UFC 106 in Las Vegas. The fight was the pay-per-view broadcast’s co-main event behind the headliner of UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin.
However, a knee injury (torn MCL) has forced the 44-year-old Coleman off the card.
Ortiz first broke the news on Twitter and said Coleman “sissied” out of the fight. However, the injury is legit and will likely keep Coleman out until 2010.
No replacement has been named.
The fight was supposed to be Coleman’s first since he upset Stephan Bonnar at UFC 100 in July.
Coleman was an early UFC fighter and the organization’s first-ever heavyweight champion. But he left the UFC in 1999 to fight in Japan, where MMA was more lucrative at the time. However, in 2008, Coleman was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame and promptly announced he had signed a new deal with the UFC. After a lackluster loss to Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in his return fight in January, many dismissed Coleman. But the Bonnar victory earned him a second life.
Coleman, a former heavyweight, dropped to 205 pounds for his recent UFC fights and recently told the Dayton Daily News he’s in the best shape of his career, thanks to his new training camp in Las Vegas.
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By ultimatefighter lol
February 7, 2010 5:40 PM | Link to this
i would love to fight this guy one time , if both knees and elbows were broken, and he couldn’t kick or throw a punch i think i could take him then if i suckered punched him with a sledge hammer when he wasn’t looking!