According to the statement of the head coach of the Roufusport team, Duke Rufus, the champion of UFC in lightweight, Anthony Pettis, acted from the UFC on FOX tournament 9iz-for recurrence of an injury of the knee got in a duel with Ben Hendersonomn of UFC 164. In August Pettis selected a champion belt at Henderson, having carried out the elbow lever in 30 seconds until the end of the first five-minute, however, didn't manage to come off clear, having passed the painful Law-kik who has become the reason of a trauma.

"Anthony tried to heal a knee, continuing trainings, but everything went not as we wanted", - Duke Rufus in MMAjunkie interview declared. "During a sparring he was hit blow in a knee, and the trauma has an effect again. Later, during training on a greppling, the opponent pulled it for a foot, trying to be exempted from capture, and Anthony felt the strongest pain"

"Now he can train in a rack, working at paws and being engaged in physical preparation. He can do exercises on force and endurance, but the sparrings including blows by feet, and trainings on ju-jitsu represent for it the real problem. If it was the boxing duel, everything would be excellent"

"Having been traumatized, Anthony visited the doctor to Milwaukee and the doctor of UFC in Las Vegas before matchmeyker of the organization made the decision to remove it from fight. Despite everything, Anthony tries to keep a positive spirit, and we with optimism look forward. To us it is inconvenient before Josh Thomson, after all he was so happy, having got chance to be overcome for a title, but, unfortunately, traumas not a rarity in our sports, and it is necessary to deal with them".