Dana White had to cancel next Saturday's card when a tear in Dan Henderson's right knee during a take down in practice will not need surgery but it still forced Dana to ask Jon Jones to fight a different fighter (Chael Sonnen) with less than two weeks preparation which would not be a good choice for Jones as Sonnen would have a slight advantage being more hungry and having more tape on Jones than Jones has on Sonnen.
But what is Mandalay Bay Events Center lose is the gain of the Air Canada Center as Jon Jones has decided with an extra three weeks to get ready and get to know his next opponent Lyoto Machida who he choked in the main event at UFC 140 which was held at the Air Canada Centre last year. So on September 22Nd @ UFC 152 Jon "Bones" Jones will face Lyoto Machida in a rematch and will be a hot main event for a hot crowd and will whatever tickets remain.
Chael Sonnen had been running his mouth for a while that he could beat Jones and we ready to immediately to head to Mandalay Bay and take him on Tomorrow if that was what it took to get him in the Octagon. Dana is pissed at Jon Jones and his camp for next take on Chael Sonnen on such short notice to save the event and give Dana a massive headache to find spots for the other match ups that have also been cancelled but I think Dana is in the wrong to put a fighter and more importantly the face of the UFC and then just rip him apart.
UFC 152 (now 151) in T.O. will be good
Tom Mehegan
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