Aisling Daly
An injury has knocked the featured preliminary card fight from next month’s UFC event in Poland.
Claudia Gadelha (12-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC), of Brazil, had to pull out of her fight with Ireland’s Aisling Daly (15-5 MMA, 1-0 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 64. UFC officials have yet to make it official, but Daly confirmed the news on her Facebook page following an initial tweet from Gadelha.
UFC Fight Night 64 takes place April 11 at Krakow Arena in Krakow, Poland. The entire event streams on UFC Fight Pass.
There may be good news for Daly on the horizon, though. A report from MMA Fighting said Daly may be quickly rebooked for UFC 186 in Montreal against fellow “TUF 20″ cast member Randa Markos.
Daly was seeded fifth of the 16 fighters on “TUF 20.” She won her first fight in the house by stopping Angela Magana with a TKO, but she fell in the quarterfinals to Jessica Penne. In her first official fight in the UFC at the TUF 20 Finale, she stopped fellow cast member Alex Chambers with a first-round armbar for back-to-back wins after a three-fight skid in Cage Warriors and Invicta.
Gadelha, who trains with Jose Aldo, will be looking to rebound from a split-decision loss to Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC on FOX 13 in December, the first loss of her career. It was thought that she would earn a women’s strawweight title shot against champion Carla Esparza with the win, but instead Jedrzejczyk got the shot with the victory and put together a dominant performance to take Esparza’s belt.
With the change, the UFC Fight Night 64 lineup includes:
MAIN CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 3 p.m. ET)
- Mirko Filipovic vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
- Jan Blachowicz vs. Jimi Manuwa
- Bartosz Fabinski vs. Garreth McLellan
- Joanne Calderwood vs. Maryna Moroz
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 11:45 a.m. ET)
- Pawel Pawlak vs. Sheldon Westcott
- Sergio Moraes vs. Gasan Umalatov
- Seth Baczynski vs. Leon Edwards
- Daniel Omielanczuk vs. Anthony Hamilton
- Aleksandra Albu vs. Izabela Badurek
- Marcin Bandel vs. Jason Saggo
- Rocky Lee vs. Taylor Lapilus
For more on UFC Fight Night 64, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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