J. Manuwa (photo) was announced as Minotouro's replacement. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC
With the injury of Rogério Minotouro, who, with a new back problem, ended up being cut from UFC London In March 2014, the Ultimate organization bet on a local athlete to replace the Brazilian. To fill Minotouro's position, Jimi Manuwa, a Nigerian naturalized Englishman, was chosen.
Manuwa is undefeated in MMA in 14 fights and is coming off a victory over Ryan Jimmo, on October 26th, in the most recent edition of the UFC in England. Unlike Gustafsson, who is coming off a narrow defeat to the champion Jon Jones, Jimi Manuwa doesn't even appear in the top-10 of light heavyweights.
UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs Manuwa is scheduled for March 8, 2014, at O2 Arena, in London (England). The co-main fight of the night marks the reunion of Melvin Guillard and Ross Pearson, after the I didn't answer of his last fight – due to an illegal knee applied by Guillard.
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they put a quarry in gustafsson's path, from what little I saw, manuwa has a style similar to that of allistair overem in alge (in the time of k1), only more agile, but gustafsson has the intelligence and a good team at his side Please, he'll probably bet on wrestling and take it to the ground. 🙂