Zack Micklewright (7-0 MMA, 1-0 WEC) has suffered an injury in training and has been forced out of a planned WEC 48 matchup with Alex Karalexis (10-4 MMA, 4-2 WEC). The Boston Herald was the first to report the injury, though the exact nature of the ailment was not disclosed. MMAjunkie.com has since confirmed that Micklewright is indeed unable to compete at the April 24 event after suffering a broken ankle.

A broken arm wasn’t enough to prevent UFC newcomer James Te Huna from earning his first win inside the Octagon at Saturday’s UFC 110 in Sydney, Australia, as the New Zealand native scored a third-round TKO of fellow light heavyweight Igor Pokrajac on the event’s preliminary card.

As reported in yesterday’s edition of MMAterial Facts , Australian media news website, Throng , brings us the national ratings for UFC 110 on One: Australia Free to Air TV Ratings: Top shows for the night: 1 Seven News – Sun Seven 1,292,000 2 Border Security – Australia’s Front Line Seven 1,276,000 3 Air Ways Seven 1,267,000 4 The Good Wife Ten 1,256,000 5 Twenty/20 – Australia V West Indies Nine 1,247,000 6 Nine News Sunday Nine 1,237,000 7 Bones Seven 1,156,000 8 Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation Ten 1,091,000 9 Sunday Night Seven 1,027,000 10 House Ten 958,000 11 Vancouver Gold 2010 Winter Olympics: Day 8 Nine 916,000 … 43 Bewitched GO 187,000 44 The Great South East Seven 177,000 B only 45 Gardening Australia Rpt ABC1 165,000 46 The Big Bang Theory GO 162,000 47 The Love of Money SBS ONE 162,000 48 Dateline SBS ONE 159,000 49 Born to Be King: Prince Charles at 60 Rpt. ABC1 150,000 50 Wipeout GO 147,000 (Outside of Top 50) UFC 110 Main Card Live One 123,000 Top Programs Across Sports Channels Rank Program Channel Average Peak 1 Live: AFL: NAB Cup Geelong v North Melb Fox Sports 2 130,000 201,000 2 UFC 110 Main Card Live ONE 123,000 189,000 MMATorch has an inclusive on the ratings situation for UFC 110 in Abu Dhabi: – UFC110 was a huge success over here being the highest rated program of the week (beating 24 Day 8 by over 30 percent). The most watched fight was Wanderlei Silva vs. Michael Bisping which was watched on around 40 percent of televisions in the country (according to Mobily who are the main TV/Phone/internet providers). I have no idea if that is an accurate figure as I have no idea if the company are trustworthy; that said, the verbal feedback I have received certainly point at it being the top end of the expected viewership. – UFC 112 is now a nightly news story on the main news network over here (unfortunately, my Arabic isn’t good enough to understand what is being said, but each night they flash up a graphic of the arena and a graphic of the three main events). – The word out of Abu Dhabi is that people are speculating that UFC will come to Abu Dhabi once a year and also to Dubai once a year. In terms of making money, I’m not sure how much business sense this makes as the time difference may effect PPV buyrates in the U.S. I guess that we will find out in April if a loaded card overcomes the possibility of ESPN and webite spoilers

(Brock Lesnar might be worth killing, but Kongo? He’s barely worth an assault charge.

Ben Rothwell, who was forced to withdraw from last Saturday’s UFC 110 with a stomach virus, hopes to fight original opponent Mirko “Cro Cop” at UFC 115 , which takes place on June 12 in Vancouver . After stepping up at the last-minute to fight Mirko “Cro Cop” at UFC 110, Anthony Perosh, who suffered a second-round TKO due to a cut, has been rewarded with a four-fight UFC contract and is likely to return to action at light heavyweight. Following it’s deal with Strikeforce early last year and subsequent acquisition by Stratus Media Group, ProElite has been restructured and is being relaunched with new top executives and will soon resume promoting MMA events, likely through its Cage Rage and Spirit MC promotions. DREAM “Super Hulk” tournament winner Ikuhisa Minowa will return to action at DREAM 13 on March 22 in Yokohama, Japan, but his opponent has not yet been announced. The UFC’s recently-announced line of Fathead posters include champions Brock Lesnar, Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva and BJ Penn, as well as Jon Jones, Junior Dos Santos and Nate Marquardt and retail for $99.99 each. An injury has forced David Heath off this Friday’s “MFC 24: Heat XC” event, but teammate Ryan McClain will replace him and fight Dwayne Lewis in the card’s co-main event. MFC 24 is headlined by Yves Edwards vs. Derrick Noble and airs live on pay-per-view at MaximumFighting.com. Former UFC lightweight Corey Hill’s comeback from a devastating broken leg continues on March 20, as he faces 7-1 Mark Holst at “Xtreme Combat League: Evolution” in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Featherweight Wilson Reis, who returns to action in Bellator’s featherweight tournament in April , has been replaced by Nick Denis on the Sengoku 12 card, who fights Yuji Hoshino at the March 7 event on Tokyo, while Marlon Sandro vs.

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, who is scheduled to fight late-replacement Anthony Perosh tomorrow at UFC 110, has reportedly suffered a cut while sparring that required stitches, but still plans to fight on the pay-per-view main card in Sydney, Australia. According to Croatian website MMA Axion (via Fighters Only ), “Cro Cop” received “a bad cut above the eyeline” and was stitched, but declined to withdraw from the event saying he “will not let weeks of hard preparation go to waste.” The severity of the injury and whether it could affect affect tomorrow’s matchup should be clear when he steps on the scale to weigh-in for the bout at tonight’s UFC 110 weigh-ins . For complete UFC 110 coverage , including live UFC 110 results tomorrow beginning at 8pm ET, stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com .

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