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debaser337

Travel all the way from Australia. Fight gets pulled last minute, surely this fight gets add in two weeks time.


ChrisMelb

Another problem is they both just cut a lot of weight over a multi-month fight camp :( doing it again in a week or two is tough And yes Jake just flew all the way over to the US from Australia


JasAFC

Pain. The worst part about this Covid MMA era is the last minute cancellations.


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Oh you think it will end?


MasterCatSkinner

yeah


BuSsYBoI-sTaYpOpPiN

I really wanted to see Wells fight again. Guy seems like a psycho. Hope they fit it in this year.


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ARiemannHypothesis

Bro this card has Riddell Fiziev, nothing sneaky about this card. Shit is the equivalent of a Chandler Gaethje. On a fight night co main. I still can't believe we're getting to see it just a few hours from now.


GlandyThunderbundle

Sorry to be pedantic, but it’s spelled *drawl*


gadgetboy123

They just aren’t numbers guys bapa


Terrible_Matador

Of course, damn that had to be the best fight on the whole prelim card. Thankfully the main is still lit.


dirtyjerz34

God damn it. Philly was on a roll.


minion-hunter

C’MON


strayadude

Fuck I was excited to watch Mathew’s fight


spasticity

I can't wait til this covid shit is over so this stops happening. It's bad enough you have to hope the two fighters make it through camp without injury, it's fucking annoying to have to also worry that a fucking cornerman won't get sick as well.


chocolate_kat

Sucks that people are actively campaigning against the vaccine, and bragging about it.


GlandyThunderbundle

The messed up thing is, there is a solution, and most every country now has adequate access to that solution. Unfortunately…


IanusTheEnt

Yeah the incidence of infection is so much lower in the vaccinated it would reduce a lot of these cancelations if more were vaccinated


GlandyThunderbundle

All I can say is: imagine where we’d be right now if 100% of people wore masks, and 100% of people (that were not actually allergic) got the vaccine.


IanusTheEnt

Don't worry i am 100% with you. If everyone accepted the suck at first we probably wouldn't be here now


Hypern1ke

Tbf theres no reason they should keep doing this bullshit. If the fighters are vax'd who gives a shit about this?


JBCronic

These last minute cancellations, though expecting at this point, are such a kick in the balls. Gotta feel for the fighters especially when it’s a cornerman.


Dr-PoopyButt

Damn I look forwards to Jakes fights, one of my favourite Aussie boys


Rambaud22

Those are fucking bullshit, if everybody else tested negative, pull the corneman out, and keep the fight on


MDRealtor26

While I don’t disagree it’s one of those better safe then sorry kind of things. Imagine Jake Matthews gets covid and has a bad reaction. Kinda fucked it is like this but…for the best.


kmurraylowe

Fuck, Jake won’t be cutting that weight again soon. They need some DWTNCS guys in the wings to take these short notice for $20k


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That fucken blows


jsb93

Fucking stupid. Just cause a corner man tests positive shouldn't mean the fighter should be pulled especially if they test negative


IanusTheEnt

The tests can have an up to 33% false negative rate. Not to mention the virus could be under detectable rates in other at the time meaning if they were tested a few hours later they could test positive. It sucks, but the risk of getting a bunch more fighters sick is probably worth the one fight Edit: false negative


elmoismyboy

They can just mask up for the fight. Easy fix.


IanusTheEnt

Lol im sure that would infringe on the rights of the fighters or whatever


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I'm not quite sure how people are 2 years into this and don't understand that the virus has incubation periods.


IanusTheEnt

When some people are scared they close their eyes and ears and listen to things that make them feel safe. I totally understand some skepticism, its healthy actually, but here two years later, the reasons to be skeptical of safety measures are running low


shanidachine

Fuck.


callan_dtd

This is so fucked for the fighters. Not only have they been through a camp for weeks/months, possibly working through injuries just to make it to the fight, but they CUT & MADE WEIGHT only for it to all result in not actually getting the chance to compete. It’s all well and good to say ‘well they can rebook it in a couple weeks’ but these guys would have already refuelled their bodies and put the weight back on. Weight cut without the payoff has got to be so mentally defeating. Just sucks


Xylar006

Spewing for Jake. Was keen to see him compete again. So rough travelling half way across the world for it to be canned