Dean Lister's fight against Joseph Baize Friday at Royce Gracie's Fightfest has been cancelled due to Lister being cut during traning. A buddy of mine trains with Baize and he got word of it this morning.
Appologies to Joseph Baize. We got the word yesterday, that Dean had a pretty bad cut over his eye that was stiched about 2 weeks ago and opened back up in training day before yesterday. As such any slight hit to that area would open it back up and the fight would have to be stopped. Therefor we adviced Dean not to fight. He was ready to show up and fight with that injury, however we did not think it would do any justice to him or the fans for this fight to go on. Sorry to all who were waiting on that fight, we will put both fighters on future cards.
Mike
Hey Mike its all good. It happens, after this is fighting
Why isn't Lister in the UFC at 205 ?
Sucks for both fighters.
Was this fight @ 205 or 185?
Respectfully:
Fred
I am glad to see that you are going to put Joeseph on a future card. He trained very hard for this fight and took the news pretty hard. Accidents happen. It was a great oppourtunity for Joe and he knew this would be his toughest fight. Hope he gets the oppourtunity to fight Dean on another card.