Donald Cerrone Replaces Sam Stout to Face Paul Kelly at UFC 126

While it's unknown which injury Sam "Hands of Stone" Stout has sustained at this time, MMA Junkie has confirmed that he will not face Paul Kelly at UFC 126 on Super Bowl weekend.

The UK-born lightweight will instead welcome former WEC lightweight contender Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone to the UFC on February 5 in Las Vegas.

The last time Cerrone was in Las Vegas, he'd gone through a three-round war with mutual enemy and recently-released former WEC lightweight champion Jaime Varner—a WEC 51 bout that could have gone to a split decision, but instead was seen as a unanimous decision by the judges.

Cerrone can look back and say that it was his ever-dangerous ground skills, not his intense feud with Varner, that scored him the decision—although we're all willing to opine that the feud did help.

In the Cowboy's future is a vicious veteran of the UFC who may be as dangerous on the feet—and the ground—as Cerrone or anyone that Cerrone's faced.

A Vale-Tudo fighter with some experience in wrestling, Kelly will be coming off a win over TJ O'Brien at UFC 123 to take this fight.

Cerrone's last fight was a win over Chris Horodecki in Arizona at WEC 53, which attributed to his current two-fight winning streak—both the rematch with Varner at WEC 51 and his WEC 53 sendoff against Horodecki came immediately after his WEC 48 loss to Ben Henderson.

Don't knock this fight before it happens, you say, Dana White?

Good, because I've yet to report on a fight that I honestly thought was going to suck.

Of course, if there's anything that sucks about watching Cerrone or Kelly, I haven't heard about it.