Gina Carano Off June 2 Card

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EliteXC.com has posted the following:

Due to illness, popular EliteXC rising female superstar, Gina Carano has been forced to withdraw from June 2nd fight card. Carano was supposed to face Jan Finney in one of the featured EliteXC fights on Showtime.

According to WrestlingObserver.com’s Dave Meltzer, Carano “was hospitalized this past week for dehydration” and she told The Fight Network’s Loretta Hunt today that she got sick attending Saturday’s WEC show after getting an intestinal virus while shooting an Oxygen reality show in Thailand.

MMAWeekly.com has posted the following line-up for June 2:

SHOWTIME PPV (7pm PT / 10pm ET):
Brock Lesnar vs. Hong Man Choi
Royce Gracie vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
Mighty Mo vs. Mu Bae Choi
Melvin Manhoef vs. Dong Sik Yoon

SHOWTIME PREMIUM CHANNEL (6pm PT / 9pm ET):
Jake Shields vs. Ido Pariente
Gina Carano vs. Jan Finney

STADIUM ONLY – Non-televised (5pm PT / 8pm ET):
Javier Vazquez vs. Katsuhiko Nagata
Brad Pickett vs. Hideo Tokoro

Other fighters announced include Johnnie Morton, Ray Sefo, Antonio Silva and J.Z. Calvancanti.

Matthew Michaels is one of the original editors of Pulse Wrestling, and was founding editor of Inside Fights and of Inside Pulse Music.