MMA Fighting · May 16, 2019
Last-second replacement Derrick Krantz didn’t even know UFC Rochester was happening
Mike Jackson, Legacy Fighting Alliance Derrick Krantz (pictured) will fight Vicente Luque in a welterweight bout at UFC Rochester this SaturdayDerrick Krantz’s call-up to the UFC was on such short notice that it was news to him that a card was even happening this Saturday.
By the time the 31-year-old Texan steps into the cage at Blue Cross Arena against top-15 ranked welterweight Vicente Luque on the UFC Rochester main card it will have been less than a week since he put pen to paper for the bout. Were it not for Neil Magny being forced to withdraw from his match with Luque due to a USADA violation, Krantz would be in Lousiana, not New York.