Tag: UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Prates (UFC Vegas 100)

After Cody Garbrandt pulled out against Miles Johns, Ricky Turcios vs. Bernardo Sopaj was scheduled to be the UFC Vegas 100 co-main event. However, according to UFC officials, Turcios has pulled out due to medical issues.

Nolan King reported the news on X:

Ricky Turcios vs. Bernardo Sopaj is OFF tomorrow’s #UFCVegas100, per UFC. Medical issue with Turcios.

— Nolan King (@mma_kings) November 8, 2024

Gerald Meerschaert vs. Reinier de Ridder is the new co-main event, and Gastón Bolaños vs. Cortavious Romious has been moved up to the main card as well. Having two co-main event fights canceled is understandably disappointing for fans, but many are happy to see De Ridder up the order.

UFC Vegas 100 Card Updated Order

Here’s what the coming UFC card looks like after the latest developments:

Main Card

• Neil Magny vs. Carlos Prates, welterweight (Main event)
• Gerald Meerschaert vs. Reinier de Ridder, middleweight (Co-main event)
• Gaston Bolanos vs. Cortavious Romious, bantamweight
• Luana Pinheiro vs. Gillian Robertson, women’s strawweight
• Mansur Abdul-Malik vs. Dusko Todorovic, middleweight

Prelims

• Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs. Denise Gomes, women’s strawweight
• Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs. Zach Scroggin, welterweight
• Matthew Semelsberger vs. Charles Radtke, welterweight
• Cody Stamann vs. Da’Mon Blackshear, bantamweight
• Tresean Gore vs. Antonio Trocoli, middleweight
• Melissa Mullins vs. Klaudia Syguła, women’s bantamweight

Marcel Dorff reported the updated order for UFC Vegas 100 on X:

#UFCVegas100 update
– Co-Main Event: Ricky Turcios vs. Benardo Sopaj scrapped. (Medical issue for Turcios per UFC officials)
– Gastón Bolaños vs. Cortavious Romious moves to the main card.
– Gerald Meerschaert vs. Reinier de Ridder is now the new co-main event. pic.twitter.com/IoIvEZQvEf

— Marcel Dorff 🇳🇱🇮🇩 (@BigMarcel24) November 8, 2024

“The Dutch Knight” boasts an impressive 17-2 record, and has only lost to undefeated Anatoly Malykhin. De Ridder is a former ONE world champion at middleweight and light heavyweight. He aims to finish Meerschaert in his UFC debut to create a solid first impression in the middleweight division.

Bantamweight contenders Gastón Bolaños and Cortavious Romious will now fight on a bigger stage too. Bolaños is coming off a TKO loss and Romious is making his UFC debut after earning a contract at Dana White’s Contender Series Season 8 Week 2.

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Newly signed UFC middleweight Reinier de Ridder says a victory is not enough when he debuts inside the Octagon this weekend at the Apex.

Among the most notable storylines set to play out at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night is the arrival of de Ridder, a former two-division titleholder under the ONE Championship banner over in Asia.

After losing his undefeated record in addition to his 205- and 225-pound belts to Russian behemoth Anatoly Malykhin, “The Dutch Knight” departed ONE earlier this year. And after getting back to the win column opposite Magomedmurad Khasaev at UAE Warriors 51, the 34-year-old put pen to paper on a deal with the UFC.

While he’ll no doubt hope to walk through an arena crowd soon enough, his first taste of Octagon action will come in the serene surroundings of the Apex on Nov. 9, where veteran Gerald Meerschaert is set to await him.

During his appearance at UFC Vegas 100 media day on Wednesday, de Ridder looked ahead to his first foray into the cage in his new promotion and assessed what he must do to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with on the sport’s biggest stage.

“Finally, after all these years of talking about the top guys, to finally be close to getting them is very cool,” de Ridder said. “The most important this is Gerald first. It’s a very cool matchup. … A win is not enough – the top dogs finish Gerald and I want to prove I’m one of them. … I’ve always watched his fights and that’s a great thing for this fight as well. There’s so much tape to study. He has so much fights. He has a really difficult style.

“The ways he finishes fights, there’s a few things he’s very dangerous at, there’s a few things he does that I think I can really capitalize as well. But it’s a great matchup,” de Ridder continued. “I’m very happy that they’ve given me him for my first fight because he’s a veteran, he’s a real name, and I think if I can put a stamp on this one, I have some leverage to start calling out some bigger names.”

De Ridder will look to make good on those remarks by delivering an emphatic finish of Meerschaert on the main card of the promotion’s centennial Apex-held UFC Fight Night.

Should he do so, the Dutchman has the likes of Bo Nickal in his sights as he hopes to add UFC gold to his already illustrious trophy cabinet in mixed martial arts.

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