Eric Schafer out, Sean Salmon to face Alan Belcher at UFC 71

UFC Junkie had note of the change earlier today. UFC Junkie is a sponsor for Sean Salmon. Salmon will probably be remembered forever as the man on the receiving end of Rashad Evans' brutal KO at UFC Fight Night 8 on 01/25/2007. For Belcher this represents a move up in weight class from Middleweight. Belcher lost in the opening PPV bout of UFC 69 to Kendall Grove on April 7.

Eric Schafer talks about the rib injury that will keep him out of the fight on this blog entry on his MySpace

This fight was and still is scheduled to be a dark match only airing if the PPV bouts run short.