Former International Fight League stand-out Chris Horodecki has been pulled from Saturday's Affliction: Day of Reckoning bout with Dan Lauzon.

Affliction Vice President Tom Atencio today told MMAjunkie.com Horodecki was unable to get medical clearance from the California State Athletic Commission.

Horodecki's manager/trainer, Shawn Tompkins, told fiveouncesofpain.com the fighter lost arm strength due to a likely bulging disk in his neck. Initially, a source close to the situation thought the issue might be neurologically related, though that doesn't appear to be the case.

Atencio is currently looking for a replacement fighter to take on Lauzon. The bout is scheduled for the Affliction: Day of Reckoning pay-per-view main card, which also includes a main event between WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko and Andrei Arlovski. The night's preliminary card airs live on HDNet.

Affliction: Day of Reckoning takes place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

Horodecki, a Canadian who turned pro just days after his 18th birthday, fought for the popular TKO organization in Canada before heading to the IFL. There, the now-21-year-old lightweight went 8-1 to become one of the organization's biggest stars. However, in a first-ever IFL lightweight title fight, he suffered a first-round TKO to Ryan Schultz.

Horodecki last competed in April 2008, when he scored a unanimous-decision victory over Nate Lamotte.

Lauzon - at the ripe age of 18 years, six months and 16 days old - became the youngest fighter ever to compete in the UFC. Lauzon suffered a first-round TKO loss to Spencer Fisher at UFC 64: Unstoppable (and a subsequent submission defeat to Deividas Taurosevicius at a Cage Fury Fighting Championships event), but he's posted seven consecutive stoppage victories since then.

Source: mmajunkie.com