Penn vs Siver turns into Caceres vs Miller
At UFC 199 Featherweights Alex Caceres of the MMA Lab and Cole Miller of American Top Team will go to battle both as late replacements.
Originally when announced Germany’s Dennis Siver was going to square off with former 2-division world champion, Hawaiian’s BJ Penn, but due to an undisclosed injury siver withdrew from the bout over two weeks ago. Replacing Siver, is Cole “Magrinho” Miller who has 15 of 18 stoppage wins via submission. Miller last fought in December when a accidental eye poke ended his UFC on Fox 17, bout with Jim Alers early. The next chapter to this story is that due to a 50ML IV over a 6hr period, which is band by USADA, led t Penn being pulled from the card for the violation. Replacing Penn is Alex “Bruce Leeroy” Caceres in January returned to Featherweight scoring a unanimous decision win over Masio Fullen, ending a 3 fight skid.
UFC 199 take place on June 4th at The Forum in Inglewood, California.
Champ Luke Rockhold (15-2) vs. Michael Bisping (28-7) – Middleweight Title
Champ Dominick Cruz (21-1) vs. Urijah Faber (33-8) – Bantamweight Title
Lightweight: Dustin Poirier (19-4) vs. Bobby Green (23-6)
Featherweight: Max Holloway (15-3) vs. Ricardo Lamas (16-4)
Middleweight: Dan Henderson (31-14) vs. Hector Lombard (34-5-1)
Featherweight: Alex Caceres (11-8) vs. Cole Miller (21-9)
Welterweight: Tom Breese (10-0) vs. Sean Strickland (17-1)
Featherweight: Clay Guida (32-16) vs. Brian Ortega (10-0)
Middleweight: Kevin Casey (9-4) vs. Elvis Mutapcic (15-4)
Lightweight: Beneil Dariush (12-2) vvs. James Vick (9-0)
Lightweight: John Makdessi (13-5) vs. Mehdi Baghdad (11-4)
Strawweight: Jessica Penne (12-3) vs. Jessica Andrade (13-5)
Welterweight: Dong Hyun Kim (13-7-3) vs. Marco Polo Reyes (5-2)
Welterweight: Jonathan Wilson (7-0) vs. Luis Henrique de Silva (10-0)
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