Report: Daniel "Ninja" Roberts Will Replace Anthony Johnson To Fight John Howard
by Kelvin Hunt on Feb 14, 2010 4:00 PM EST
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PrintHoward’s manager Linda Shields confirmed that Daniel Roberts will be stepping in as a replacement for the injured Anthony Johnson.
The fight is scheduled to take place for the UFC’s first broadcast on the Versus network, dubbed "UFC on Versus 1," on March 21.
We reported earlier that Anthony Johnson had to pull out of the fight with Howard due to a knee injury. Johnson posted this on his facebook wall:
I apologize to the fans,ufc,and john howard for having to pull out of the fight because of a knee injury. It's a fight that I really was looking forward to. Howard keep training hard we are still gonna get down no matter what
Roberts will be making his UFC debut and boasts a career record of (9-0) with the majority of those wins coming via submission. He last fought and defeated UFC veteran Anthony Macias and forced Macias to submit due to punches. Howard is undefeated in the UFC with going (3-0) inside the promotion. The fight will take place on the UFC On Versus 1 card in March.
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Roberts/Howard
This has gotta be moved to the undercard unfortunately…
It’s kind of disrespectful to Howard but both Ludwig/Fisher and Sakara/Irvin are going to be better bouts than a guy in Howard who’s never fought on tv taking on a newcomer.
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I feel you…Ludwig/Fisher will be a standup fight that could be a sloppy kickboxing match once they get tired…and Sakara/Irvin are two fighters nobody really cares about…they might be able to squeeze this one in…I hope so anyway….
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