Following Donald Cerrone’s win on Wednesday night at UFC Fight Night 46, the UFC move forward with a matchup between Cerrone and Khabib Nurmagomedov and the bout agreement was signed by both fighters for UFC 178.
However, the fight will not be taking place due to Nurmagomedov suffering a knee injury shortly after signing on to face Cerrone.
UFC President Dana White announced the news during his UFC Fight Night 46 Pre-Fight Media Scrum today and stated that Nurmagomedov injured his knee twenty minutes after signing his bout agreement.
“That is supposed to be true, that fight is made — it’s done,” White said. “Twenty minutes later, [Nurmagomedov] went into the gym and blew his knee out. Twenty [expletive] minutes later. It was done. The bout agreements, done. Email went out last night from Joe Silva saying that this fight is done, both contracts were signed — boom, 20 minutes later, you’re not going to [expletive] believe this, the fight is off.”
With Nurmagomedov out of the fight with Cerrone, it’s unknown at this time who Cerrone could face next. A potential opponent for Cerrone could be the winner of next week’s fight at UFC on FOX 12 as number three title challenger Josh Thomson will meet Bobby Green on the main card.