When it rains it pours.
Before the Octagon doors even opened for business, it was announced that, for the second time on Saturday, a fight had been scrapped from the UFC London card.
Early this afternoon, Accrington bantamweight Ian Entwistle was deemed medically unfit to compete against Brett Johns after he failed to make weight a day earlier.
Awful news https://t.co/5A4eXdIWTv
— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) March 18, 2017
The fight was cancelled and, when media arrived at the O2 Arena, we discovered that another much-anticipated bout had been removed from the bill.
Birmingham’s Tom Breese withdrew from the event just moments before the first preliminary bout took place.
Breese was scheduled to make his middleweight debut opposite Oluwale Bamgbose and both men weighed in on point on Friday but will no longer play a part of the Octagon’s return to London.
The card will go ahead with 11 fights but, considering the fact that a fire alarm forced an evacuation of the fighter hotel late last night, the UFC London card is feeling ever so slightly cursed.
