Sims-Thomas fight off of TUF Five Finale

I say the fight was canceled while a quote given by Dana White to the Houston Chronicle's Steve Sievert says it was never going to happen. You can read the entire piece including Dana's comments here

I don't buy this one for a second. This announcement appeared on UFC.com for crying out loud, if he didn't have knowledge of it before then than this is a pretty WCW like spectacular mistake.
For all of the outrage displayed during the show about this fight, it didn't stop commercials hyping it from being produced and aired for a week straight. It didn't stop them from putting Dana's rant after a commercial for maximum impact and to not only retain viewers through the break but to quite frankly give them time to inform their friends that Dana was about to rant.
I can buy that Dana White travels quite a bit especially these days and I'll even say that there are likely things that happen that escape his notice. However, this kind of thing seems a bit...large.

If Sievert's guess is correct, then the UfC should be commended for listening to fan reaction and abandoning plans. I'm not sure that's really what went down either, seems to me there's probably a middle ground explanation.
If Dana is telling the truth and I'm not entirely ruling it out...0.000001 percent is still a percent (and I'm not saying that's the percentage I put on this one) but if he is telling the truth then there's a communications gap that needs to be mended, like yesterday.

One last prediction. This fight will happen and it will happen on a pay per view. It may not be a UFC Pay Per View, in fact I don't think you'll see either man in the UFC any time soon if ever. However, someone will try and make money on this and that is the only thing in this whole story of which one can be 100% certain.