Bad news greeted fight fans on Saturday night. UFC Vegas 24 lost its co-main event on the day of the event. Details were initially sketchy, but the lightweight contest between Jeremy Stephens and Drakkar Klose was off. The message was that an injury had forced Klose from the card. More information followed, and none of it was good.
Klose would be diagnosed with a “brain concussion” and a “sprain of cervical neck.” It was a result of Stephens delivering a two-handed shove to the chest of Klose, whose arms were behind his back at the time, during the UFC weigh-ins.