With son fighting hydrocephalus, Ray Borg leaves UFC Chile; Brazilian is the substitute

A. Pantoja replaces Borg and fights at UFC Chile (Photo: Reproduction/Youtube)

With a personal drama, Ray Borg is out of UFC Chile, an event that takes place on May 19th, in Santiago. The fighter's son, who was born last week with hydrocephalus, is hospitalized on strike. For this reason, the North American was removed from the show and was replaced by the Brazilian. Alexandre pantoja. The Tupiniquim athlete faces the Mexican Brandon Moreno. Information about the change was published on the Combate channel website.

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This is the second time that the duel between Ray Borg and Brandon Moreno is cancelled. The fighters were initially supposed to face each other at UFC 223, on April 7th. But the attack Conor McGregor The athletes' bus injured Borg's eye, which was removed from the contest.

The fight was rescheduled for Chile, but as Anthony Borg, Ray's son, was born with hydrocephalus (accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the cranial cavity), the fighter revealed that he was unable to concentrate on training. As a result, Ultimate canceled the dispute and gave the North American time to take care of his family.

With the inclusion of Pantoja in the show, the UFC Chile card now has five Brazilians in action. Check out the fight program for the event below:

UFC Chile fight schedule (subject to change)

MAIN CARD (23pm, Brasília time):

Demian Maia x Kamaru Usman

Alexa grasso x Tatiana Suarez placeholder image

Jared Cannonier x Dominick reyes

Diego Rivas x Guido cannetti

Veronica macedo x Andrea Lee

Vincent Luque x Chad Laprise

PRELIMINARY CARD (19:30 p.m., Brasília time):

Zak Cummings x Michel Tractor

Brandon Moreno x Alexandre pantoja

Poliana Botelho x Syuri Kondo

Gabriel Benítez x Humberto Bandenay

Enrique Barzola x Brandon davis

Henry Briones x Frankie Saenz

Claudio Puelles placeholder image x Felipe silva