Wanderlei Silva won’t be fighting Mirko Filipovic a third time after all.
The former PRIDE champion called out “Cro Cop” for the RIZIN openweight tournament quarterfinal after the Croatian heavyweight submitted Hyun Man Myung in September, but Filipovic announced on Facebook that the Brazilian will no longer compete on Dec. 29. MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani confirmed the news.
“I just received a message from RIZIN that Wanderlei Silva got scared and cancelled our fight,” Filipovic wrote. “I swear, few days ago I told Stipe Drvis that I have a feeling this guy will bail. And this morning I receive this message.