Following the loss of prospect Phil Davis, who had to bow out of his main event fight top contender Rashad Evans with an injured knee, Joe Silva must be pulling the hair out of his head in great gelled clumps. The main event of UFC: 133 has now suffered through three changes, Evans first getting a dance date with champ Jon Jones, who pulled out with a hand injury only to announce he was fine, then getting a slight downgrade in the form of Davis, and now fighting Tito Ortiz, a man who he’ll gain virtually no ranking boost from beating and, if he loses, will skyrocket Tito back into the top ten after his victory over Ryan Bader.Three changes, and that’s just one fight.

To further the theory that Lady Luck is real and has it out for the UFC, Jose Aldo was originally rumored to fight Chad Mendes on this card, a fight that would have strangely marked Aldo’s second time as the smaller guy on the poster (both figuratively and literally) due to two titles being on the line, though Aldo eventually announced a lingering injury he wished to rehab. Mendes will instead be fighting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu wiz Rani Yahya on one of two Spike TV televised prelims.

Another co main event idea has now been scrapped because of Antonio Rogerio Nogueira’s withdrawal and lack of a suitable placement for his opponent, Rich Franklin. Instead an interesting and slightly perplexing bout between Vitor Belfort, the last challenger for Silva’s title, and Yoshiro Akiyama, a Japanese judoka whose 1-2 in his last three, is instead taking the second hand spotlight and charged with filling the co main event void.  A welterweight scrap between journeymen Dennis Hallman and Brian Ebersole has instead been upgraded to the main card.

Shifting glances to the underbelly of this voodoo hexed like event Riki Fukuda had to pull out of a scheduled middleweight clash with Rafael Natal due to, of all things, a car crash he suffered an injury from, and has now subsequently been replaced by Cypriot Constantinos Philippou. Veteran Vladimir Matyushenko has bowed out of his match with upcoming 205er Alexander Gustafsson but the always game Matt Hamill is now standing in for the Russian wrassler and will face off against the exciting Swed on the other televised bout. Lastly, while no injury related, Nick Pace was pulled in order to face Chris Cariaso at UFC: 130 after Kid Yamato was forced to step down from their match up with his own injury. He was substituted by Ivan Menjivar.

Main Card Changes: Five, all of which came from either main event or co main event bouts.
Prelim Changes: Three, though the Hamill/Gustafsson bout could arguably be called an upgrade.

So is UFC 133: Evans vs. Jones/Davis/Ortiz the most cursed card ever? Just about, history tells us the only card that came as close to driving Joe Silva insanity was UFC 85, which also had eight replacements by injury.Any cards words than the aforementioned two? Leave a comment and voice your opinion so you hold eternal bragging rights and stories to tell your grand kids when your eighty three and they’ll call you a liar who smells funny because there’s no way you outsmarted the Amazing Antenucci.