Contract dispute nixes UFC Fight Island 6 co-predominant

This weekend’s UFC Fight Island 6 card has misplaced its co-predominant match.

Rising heavyweight prospect Cyril Gane and Ante Delija also can rep hung out on the basketball court in Abu Dhabi this week, nonetheless they won’t be in a dilemma to fight every other this weekend. The UFC presented that contract issues rep kept away from Delija from making his Octagon debut in opposition to the Frenchman, and as a consequence neither Gane nor Delija will be struggling with on Fight Island.

What are those contract issues, you ask? Successfully they’re on Delija’s facet, and per ESPN’s Ariel Helwani it is stemming from the Expert Fighters League’s disclose that Ante is smooth below contract with them although they’ve held no events this year.

“My PFL contract formally expired on Feb. 2, 2020 and there used to be a unilateral choice from the PFL to lengthen my contract for two extra seasons,” Delija wrote in a observation issued to ESPN. “Then but again, since there will not be the kind of thing as a [PFL] season this year and I had no longer bought any produce of payments from PFL or any compensation, this became no longer an choice for me.

“Sadly, PFL wrote a letter to the UFC earlier this week asserting that I was smooth below contract with PFL, nonetheless this, alternatively, used to be no longer essentially based mostly totally on the licensed info. My administration crew and my attorney identified the invalidity of the contract to the PFL.

“Sadly, the PFL neglected all licensed letters and deliberately build barriers in my system and took away my likelihood to fight within the UFC on Saturday. My administration crew has already urged our lawyer to steal the following licensed steps and we would be looking into what future steps we would be making.

“I’m grateful for the replacement that used to be given to be by the UFC. I’m awaiting clearing this topic up as soon as conceivable, and I will be in a position to steal a fight as soon as conceivable.”

Successfully that can possibly well doubtlessly bag sinful between Delija and PFL, and it comes at a time when PFL is additionally going by a conceivable lawsuit from warring parties over its handling of the cancelled 2020 season.

The original co-predominant match is a ladies’s flyweight bout between former title challenger Katlyn Chookagian and former strawweight champion Jessica Andrade. Within the major match, Chan Sung Jung aka “The Korean Zombie” takes on Brian Ortega in a no 1 contender matchup at featherweight.