FFS!
Recent news, Oliveira is out from ufc 294 due to an eye injury. And guess who has replaced Oliveira
Their fight that got a controversal result in the past. I am speaking about battle dwarf - Alex Volkanovski. Wow! What a surprise. UFC hit perfect with such replacement. To bad, it might be a really short notice for Volkan.
Recent news, Oliveira is out from ufc 294 due to an eye injury. And guess who has replaced Oliveira
Their fight that got a controversal result in the past. I am speaking about battle dwarf - Alex Volkanovski. Wow! What a surprise. UFC hit perfect with such replacement. To bad, it might be a really short notice for Volkan. Volk is probably expecting a rematch too. If there ever a poll about who should get an immediate rematch between Oliveira and Volk, Volk will likely win more votes. Their fight will keep you sit in front of the monitor savoring each hit. But also unsure how it will end.
But I hope Volk can prepare well for this fight. Volks tough hope he wins this time so there will be another Islam vs Volk III.
It is what it is. He has been unlucky, but we cannot do anything about that. Neither can he. But the fight that people are wanting to see right now is definitely going to be interesting. It will be good. injuries can happen. I also definitely feel bad for Oliviera. But as I said, it is what it is. Everyone has to accept it and move on.
I also actually agreed with @TopTort777 that it is going to be a close fight again. No one is going to have an advantage over the other because they definitely didn't know that they were going to fight the opponent that they are getting right now. And people will also love this fight.
It is said (rumours) that Costa also withdrew himself from UFC 294 due to that elbow surgery. If this is true, then this is the 5th time Costa is breaking up the fight in 2 years and setting UFC up. Should UFC give him a kind of penalty for that ?
Yes, I think at this point, it is pretty certain that he is not going to fight in the UFC 294 against Khamzat. This was a very interesting fight for the fans. This has also become really disappointing and frustrating for the fans and also for UFC.
About having penalties, I really don't know. Because it has happened because of a health issue. if this was because he wasn't able to make weight or something, I would have said that he definitely deserves a penalty. But now I am not sure, to be honest. But pulling out five times from a fight in two years is definitely something that shouldn't be tolerated as well.