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Paul ‘Semtex’ Daley yanked from Bellator 163 following ‘difficult weight cut’

The hits just keep on coming.

The Bellator 163 fight card and line up, already tattered by the withdrawal of Marloes Coenen vs. Talita Nogueira, suffered another last-minute change after Paul Daley struggled with his 170-pound weight cut.

Opponent Derek Anderson will be paid his “show” purse.

"After a difficult weight cut, we, along with Mike Mazzulli from the Mohegan Athletic Commission, made the decision to pull Paul Daley from tonight's event as a precautionary measure," Bellator president Scott Coker told MMAFighting.com. "Fighter safety is of the utmost importance to us here at Bellator.