Besides Trevor Prangley being removed from the Strikeforce: Evolution fight card, it appears that a second fighter will be missing as well as sources close to the event have stated that Bryan Travers has suffered an undisclosed injury and will not participate in the event, which is scheduled to take place on December 19 from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA.

Travers had been originally been scheduled to face Daisuke Nakamura and was making his Strikeforce debut. Although Travers’ withdrawal hasn’t been announced, the last-minute announcement means that Strikeforce: Evolution now looks like this:

MAIN CARD

• Cung Le vs. Scott Smith
• Champ Josh Thomson vs. interim champ Gilbert Melendez (lightweight title-unification bout)
• Matt Lindland vs. Ronald “Jacare” Souza
• Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal vs. Mike Whitehead
• Robbie Lawler vs. TBA

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Antwain Britt vs. Scott Lighty
• Daisuke Nakamura vs. TBA*
• Juan Nunez vs. Luis Mendoza
• Bobby Stack vs. Alex Trevino
• Alex Crispim vs. A.J. Fonseca