By Ariel Helwani
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Tim Sylvia's shocking nine-second knockout loss to
Ray Mercer on Saturday has proven to be more costly than originally thought.
Affliction Entertainment vice president,
Tom Atencio, informed FanHouse on Monday that Sylvia has now been taken off the upcoming "Affliction: Trilogy" card. "It's his second knockout in a row, and I don't want to take a chance on anything," Atencio said. "The fight is less than 60 days away."
Atencio added that no one from the California State Athletic Commission contacted him about taking Sylvia off the card, but he felt it was in Sylvia's best interest to take some time off to heal.
Atencio said that
Paul Buentello will still fight on the card, and will probably face the winner of the Pedro Rizzo-Gilbert Yvel fight, which takes place at the June 27 "Ultimate Chaos" event in Biloxi, Miss.
On Sunday,
Buentello told FanHouse that he wished Sylvia never took the fight to begin with.
"... You gotta take a step back and go, 'Man, you know, it would be great to fight him but what would it do for me now? What would it do for me now in front of the fans?' I don't know if the hype is still there after him getting beat," Buentello said.
"Affliction: Trilogy" is scheduled to take place on August 1 from the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The event is headlined by Fedor Emelianenko vs. Josh Barnett.
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