{"id":279959,"date":"2018-07-04T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T22:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=279959"},"modified":"2018-07-04T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T22:55:30","slug":"derek-brunson-injured-out-of-ufc-227-bout-with-antonio-carlos-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/derek-brunson\/derek-brunson-injured-out-of-ufc-227-bout-with-antonio-carlos-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Brunson injured out of UFC 227 bout with Antonio Carlos Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing for his biggest fight to date, The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 winner, Antonio Carlos Junior may now have to prepare for even longer.<\/p>\n<p>Riding an impressive five-fight\u00a0winning streak that consists of four rear-naked-choke victories (three consecutive), Carlos Junior is poised for a step up in competition and he was set to get it against Derek Brunson at UFC 227 on August 4th in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for both men,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportv.globo.com\/site\/combate\/noticia\/com-lesao-no-olho-derek-brunson-se-retira-de-luta-contra-cara-de-sapato.ghtml?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=share-bar-smart&amp;utm_campaign=share-bar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Combate<\/a>\u00a0has now reported that Brunson will have to pull out of the bout due to an eye injury.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/o4B7TjaVvr-HYckHSH_pCkQ3V-Y=\/0x0:2520x3456\/1200x800\/filters:focal(965x1374:1367x1776)\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/55080285\/usa_today_9546849.0.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PhotoCred: MMAJunkie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carlos Junior has proven to be one of the most dangerous fighters at 185 pounds with his fantastic BJJ. Which made the high level\u00a0wrestler and aggressive striker in Brunson a very interesting style matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson was going into this fight after a losing effort to Ronaldo &#8220;Jacare&#8221; Souza in January. The loss snapped a two-fight winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>With the omission of Brunson vs Carlos Junior, UFC 227 currently looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight &#8211; 135lbs: (C)TJ Dillashaw vs. Cody Garbrandt<\/p>\n<p>Flyweight &#8211; 125lbs: (C)Demetrious Johnson vs. Henry Cejudo<\/p>\n<p>Light Heavyweight &#8211; 205lbs: Alexander Gustafsson vs. Volkan Oezdemir<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight &#8211; 145lbs:\u00a0 Cub Swanson vs. Renato Moicano<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Bethe Correia vs. Irene Aldana<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Wuliji Buren vs. Bharat Khandare<\/p>\n<p>Strawweight &#8211; 115lbs: Danielle Taylor vs. Zhang Weili<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Ricardo Ramos vs. Kyung Ho Kang<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Benito Lopez vs. Ricky Simon<\/p>\n<p>Strawweight: Polyana Viana vs. JJ Aldrich<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Pedro Munhoz vs. Brett Johns<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Brett Okamoto is reporting that the UFC will look to rebook the fight for a different event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UFC middleweight Derek Brunson is out of a scheduled bout against Antonio Carlos Jr. at UFC 227 on Aug. 4 due to injury, per sources. First reported by Combate. The plan right now is to re-book the matchup at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bokamotoESPN\/status\/1014641775225421824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>UFC middleweight Derek Brunson is out of a scheduled bout against Antonio Carlos Jr. at UFC 227 on Aug. 4 due to injury, per sources. First reported by Combate. The plan right now is to re-book the matchup at a later date.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 7\/4\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing for his biggest fight to date, The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 winner, Antonio Carlos Junior may now have to prepare for even longer. Riding an impressive five-fight\u00a0winning streak that consists of four rear-naked-choke victories (three consecutive), Carlos Junior is poised for a step up in competition and he was set to get it against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54445,"featured_media":279962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39398,10350,39489],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Derek Brunson injured out of UFC 227 bout with Antonio Carlos Junior<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Preparing for his biggest fight to date, The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 winner, Antonio Carlos Junior may now have to prepare for even longer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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