Jay Hieron front-runner to face Nick Diaz

By MMAEdition on Jul 28, 2009 with Comments 0

Former IFL champ Jay Hieron has emerged as the front-runner to replace Joe Riggs against Nick Diaz at Strikeforce "Carano vs Cyborg" on August 15 in San Jose.

GracieFighter.com, the website of Diaz’s team, posted Tuesday that Phil Baroni and Takanori Gomi have been crossed out as replacements and that Hieron is the likely opponent right now.

Riggs pulled out of the fight due to a “bad reaction to an as of yet undisclosed drug,” GracieFighter.com originally reported.