Drew Fickett pulls out of 6/14 welterweight title fight with Jake Shields - Fight Forum - MMA - UFC - Boxing - K1

amartinez141 · 05-02-2008, 10:32 AM

MMA Weekly is reporting that Drew Fickett has had to pull out of his June 14 welterweight title fight with Jake Shields due to a knee injury.

The news comes from EliteXC Vice President Jared Shaw who was a recent guest on MMA Weekly radio.

From MMA Weekly:

“Obviously the back injury happened (to Shields) and the easiest thing to do was move him to Hawaii to fight Drew,” said Shaw in the interview with MMAWeekly Radio. “Unfortunately since then Drew Fickett has hurt his knee and he’s not going to be able to take that fight on June 14 and that will be rescheduled again.”

By “rescheduled again,” Shaw is referring to a scheduled March 29th bout between the two that didn’t go through due to Shields’ aforementioned back injury.

In addition to revealing Fickett’s injury, Shaw also announced five bouts for the June 14th show set to take place in Hawaii. The bouts are as follows:

K.J. Noons vs. Yves Edwards (for EliteXC’s lightweight title)
Nick Diaz vs. Muhsin Corbbrey
Murilo Rua vs. Tony Bonello
Wayne Cole vs. Rafael Feijao
Dave Herman vs. Ron Waterman

T-Bone · 05-02-2008, 11:08 AM

Are you kidding me? Now it just seems like this a fight that will never happen.

mammoth91 · 05-02-2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by T-Bone

Are you kidding me? Now it just seems like this a fight that will never happen.

I know ! This is really too bad.. This fight will/would be great. Knee injury ?
Fickett should come back strong from that, I think he has very good all around skills... I'm a fan !!

Gygax · 05-02-2008, 11:48 AM

Like I outlined in this post, this is pretty fishy. I think EliteXC are delaying the Shields-Fickett fight so they have a marquee matchup for the second CBS show.

Just last week, Shields was quoted as saying he wasn't sure whether he would be fully recovered from his back injury in time for a June 14th date. Now this. Pretty convenient.