UFC 318 Holloway Vs. Poirier 3 Loses Veteran Matchup To Injury
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A hamstring injury has knocked Gunnar Nelson out of his UFC 318 fight against Neil Magny. UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 takes place on July 19 in New Orleans.
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AuthorJul 06, 2025, 12:37pm EDTLONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 21: Gunnar Nelson of Iceland poses on the scale during the UFC Fight Night
More ceremonial weigh-in at The O2 on March 21, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Zuffa LLC Gunnar Nelson was set to fight twice in the same year for the first time since 2019 when he was matched up against Neil Magny for a UFC 318 scrap
That welterweight fight, which was to take place on the preliminary card of the Holloway vs
Poirier 3 headlined event, is off after Nelson suffered a hamstring injury that will leave him unable to compete on July 19 from the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans
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Holland won that fight, beating Nelson via unanimous decision
The loss Nelson’s two-fight winning streak
Octagon was the first to report the news of Nelson’s withdrawal from the figh card
Magny (29-13) is riding the first two-fight losing skid of his career since he dropped back-to-back fights to Sergio Moraes and Seth Baczynski in 2013
Magny, who has been with the UFC since that same year, has been knocked out in the first round his past two trips to the Octagon, falling to Michael Morales in August 2024 and Carlos Prates in November 2024
Before those losses, Magny was on a 4-3 run, alternating wins and losses in those seven contests
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I’ve had to withdraw from my fight with Neil Magny on July 19 due to a hamstring injury,” Nelson said on social media. “I won’t get into any crazy details the injury but I’ll tell you it’s a two-part injury, so there is a tear in one of the muscles in the hamstring, which is a Grade 2b injury
It’s not too bad, so it’s possibly something that we could have worked with. “However, the second injury is on the tendon inside the muscle, which is a full thickness tear, so a Grade 4c injury and that’s a more serious one
Basically, I’m absolutely useless when it comes to any type of grappling scenarios
I’m not able to wrestle or grapple or kick and apparently it will be another eight weeks at least until I can comfortably have any type of grappling training at full speed
At least eight weeks. ” The UFC has not indicated if Magny will remain on UFC 318: Holloway vs
Poirier 3 with a replacement opponent
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